In 1972, Major League Baseball players voted to strike against team owners in a bid to raise pay for their benefit program, resulting in a 13-day lockout. The strike ended after 13 days, resulting at the cost of all missed games. The city experienced a record-breaking spring snowfall, with more than 8 inches of snowfall the most ever on April 1. The Tribune's Col. Robert R. McCormick, editor and publisher of the Times, died in 1955. In 2017, Chicago Bulls general manager Jerry Krause was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, joining Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Phil Jackson, Tex Winter, Dennis Rodman and Jerry Reinsdorf from the dynasty-era Bulls.