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Today in Sports History: March 18th
(Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle. Photo by Malcolm Emmons, US Presswire) 3/18/1985 - Mays, Mantle reinstatedMLB commissioner Peter Ueberroth reinstates Hall of Fame outfielders Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle, who had been banned from baseball by former commissioner Bowie Kuhn. Mays was ostracized in...
Today in Sports History: January 30th
1/30/1958 - Frick removes fan voting Baseball commissioner Ford Frick announces that fans will no longer decide the starters for the MLB All-Star Game. The year before, Cincinnati fans had voted all but one of the Reds' position players into the National League's starting lineup; the only one who...
Marvin Miller and the How Free Agency Came to Baseball, Part II
In Part I we looked at the history of labor unions in baseball, and the changes that Marvin MIller wrought in a short team as the president of the Major League Baseball Player's Association. Today, we see how Curt Flood paved the road for the eventual creation of free agency, and how Miller won...
Marvin Miller and the How Free Agency Came to Baseball, Part I
UPDATE: Part II of this article can be found here. Last week we looked at the History of the American and National leagues in two parts (part I, part II). This week we will look at the history of labor unions in baseball, and focus on the impact that Marvin Miller had on the game. We will examine...
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