{"id":1980,"date":"2010-02-02T01:40:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T06:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/02\/02\/1994%e2%80%99s-lasting-impact-on-videogames\/"},"modified":"2010-02-02T01:40:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T06:40:20","slug":"1994%e2%80%99s-lasting-impact-on-videogames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/02\/02\/1994%e2%80%99s-lasting-impact-on-videogames\/","title":{"rendered":"1994\u2019s Lasting Impact on Videogames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this was a <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5460160\/the-replacements-still-replaced-in-video-games?skyline=true&s=i\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5460160\/the-replacements-still-replaced-in-video-games?skyline=true&amp;s=i', 'great article');\" target=\"_blank\">great article<\/a> \u2013 kotaku talks about the impact of the 1994 MLB Player\u2019s Strike on five replacement players that crossed picket lines and have been forever banished from the MLBPA.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Although these replacements later made full major league rosters, some of them contributing memorably, they are forever denied membership in the Major League Baseball Players Association, and thus their likenesses can never be used in any MLBPA licensed merchandise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I never thought about this before; these players cannot show up in MLB licensed videogames.  Baseball fans and videogame enthusiasts should give the article a read.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this was a great article \u2013 kotaku talks about the impact of the 1994 MLB Player\u2019s Strike on five replacement players that crossed picket lines and have been forever banished from the MLBPA. Although these replacements later made full major league rosters, some of them contributing memorably, they are forever denied membership in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/02\/02\/1994%e2%80%99s-lasting-impact-on-videogames\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1994\u2019s Lasting Impact on Videogames<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}