Despite the popularity of baseball, and the attendant high salaries relative to those of
average Americans, the players have become dissatisfied from time to time, as they
believed the owners had too much control and retained an unfair share of the money.
Various job actions have occurred throughout the game's history. Players on specific
teams occasionally attempted strikes, but usually came back when their jobs were
sufficiently threatened. The throwing of the 1919 World Series, the "Black Sox scandal",
was in some sense a "strike" or at least a rebellion by the ballplayers against a
perceived stingy owner. But the strict rules of baseball contracts tended to keep the
players "in line" in general.
