Marvin Miller

Marvin Miller
Marvin Julian Millerwas the Executive Director of the Major League Baseball Players Associationfrom 1966 to 1982. Under Miller's direction, the players' union was transformed into one of the strongest unions in the United States. In 1992, Red Barber said, "Marvin Miller, along with Babe Ruth and Jackie Robinson, is one of the two or three most important men in baseball history."...
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I'm just happy to be here. I'm so thankful to have so many people, kids and everything, and such nice neighbors.
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You're not just talking about 2 teams and 50 jobs. You're talking about establishing a precedent that the owners can eliminate jobs. That would be very troubling for players,
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It's not good enough (for the NHLPA) to say they've done it like this in the past, ... That's just an admission of guilt. They've clearly violated their constitution and it makes it possible that they could be looking at a civil and criminal offense.
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Some of the players were leaning on leadership to do most destabilizing thing possible for a union, to open they contract. They will rue the day they did this.
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My feeling is never count on an arbitrator or courts, ... You may think you know how it will come out but don't count on it. A strike you can count on because you only call a strike when you know you can win.
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It could take two or three years longer on the appellate level for the first tier -- that's the circuit court of appeals -- then it could take a couple of years ... in the Supreme Court.
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It's the difference between a very stupid bank thief and a very skillful one. It doesn't mean the skillful one will not get caught.
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The whole thing smells bad. You have a so-called senior adviser who takes the leading role in making one of the worst settlements imaginable and then becomes director of the union.
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This is a molehill case, and the government is going to have to make a mountain out of it.
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This is not going to be something where a jury sits down in a jury box with a clean slate, listens to only the admissible evidence and then makes a decision. That's not this case.
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If what they propose comes to fruition, we're going to have a beautiful beach.
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It tells me really what I've known all along. And that is that the NHLPA has never been a legitimate union at any time. It has always been an offshoot of management.
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They've clearly violated their constitution and it makes it possible that they could be looking at a civil and criminal offence.
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We hope to sit down with them and address their concerns.