Topic: Major League Baseball Players Association
The average major league baseball salary increased 2.7 percent to almost $3.1 million in 2011, the biggest rise since 2008, the Major League Baseball Players Association said Monday.In its annual report, the union said the 913 players on August ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Major League Baseball (MLB) players and owners reached a five-year collective bargaining agreement on Tuesday that includes extra drug testing and plans to expand the postseason.The deal, which needs to be ratified by the players and owners, will ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) declined comment on Wednesday on a call by U.S. senators to ban tobacco, including smokeless tobacco, from the game.With the World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Texas Rangers ...
0 . . . - The topic is baseball labor, and we're discussing it way up here atop Page 2 because it's not front-page news, at least for now. That...
There is no president of the National League any longer, no president of the American League, there is just commissioner, Bud Selig, that's it and...
Marvin Miller was advocating for players when he created the first collective bargaining agreement in professional sports, and he's still...
It's interesting to note that Jayson Werth (above), the newest member of the Washington Nationals, is worth more than the entire Expos team was...
Gene Orza, the pugnacious union executive who helped guide the Major League Baseball Players Association through work stoppages and steroid...
Already world-famous among sports fans for forcing a revision of the record books, the U.S. government's top steroid cop, Jeff Novitzky, is now...
A Wednesday night conference call between the National Hockey League's 30 player representatives failed to produce a new leader for the league's...