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Players are not willing to go on strike, for understandable reasons ... The kind of power Marvin Miller was able to express and manifest on the part of the athletes doesn’t really exist anymore.
Having strong leadership at the leadership and at the executive director level is important ... The ability to communicate what the membership wants is also important. Those are strengths of the sports unions going back to Marvin Miller.More quotes »
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How America Commie-Baited A Baseball Hero
20th century. Today, baseball has free agency, no salary cap, and no collusion among owners. It's the closest thing to capitalism in all of pro sports. He was in the phone book. That's the thing that always got me about Marvin Miller, the former… Read… from Deadspin Read more »
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Deadspin: The FBI vs. Marvin Miller: How America Commie-Baited A Baseball Hero
We've plenty of hearsay and conjecture. Those are kinds of evidence. All of this was done with the goal of determining if Marvin Miller was working toward the overthrow of the American government. Spoiler alert: He was not. So they're still not on to the master from Baseball Think Factory Read more »
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Wood sculptor Marvin Miller, known for post-Katrina carvings, transforming New Orleans trees
Miller, a Floridian wood sculptor has begun carving shapes into a dead oak tree on Bayou St. John near Orleans Avenue, to be completed by Bayou Boogaloo. (Doug MacCash / NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) NEW ORLEANS -- An artist from Florida is turning some dead from Gulf Live Read more »
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Frank Girardot: Porn, Jessica Drake, smut, James Deen and the obscenity test
name for porn - they called it smut. And, no one was better at making a buck off smut than West Covina resident Marvin Miller. In fact, it could be argued that Miller, who ran a printing press in Industry and turned that city's post office into a distribution from SGVTribune.com Read more »
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LeBron James might improve your pension
used against them. “Players are not willing to go on strike, for understandable reasons,” said Zimbalist. “The kind of power Marvin Miller was able to express and manifest on the part of the athletes doesn’t really exist anymore.” “It’s easier to keep the from Salon Read more »
