5 of the most spooky, surreal and scary World Series moments ever

3. Wait, the World Series was canceled?

For baseball fans of a certain age, and a dwindling demographic of baseball fans if you believe that sentiment, the idea of a World Series being canceled would be unbelievable and borderline blasphemy. But in 1994, that’s just what happened due to a player’s strike.

At the moment the 1994 season was canceled, in mid-August, Tony Gwynn was threatening .400 (.394) and the Montreal Expos had the best record in baseball (74-40) with a group of players that looked to be the core of a contender for years to come. But we’ll never know if Gwynn, one of the best hitters ever, would have reached that iconic batting average and those 1994 Expos have gone down as one of the biggest “what-if” scenarios of the last 25 years in baseball and pro sports as a whole. A little over a decade later, with a lack of attendance in Montreal, the Expos became the Washington Nationals.

There has been labor piece in MLB for a long while now, with no real threat of a strike on the horizon. In a parallel universe, those of us that remember 1994 can think Gwynn would have hit .400 and the Expos would have made it three straight World Series titles for Canada.