Statement from MLBPA Executive Director Michael Weiner Regarding Biogenesis Suspensions

August 5, 2013 by MLBPA · 1 Comment

New York, NY, Monday, August 5, 2013 … Major League Baseball Players Association Executive Director Michael Weiner today issued the following statement regarding the Biogenesis suspensions. “The accepted suspensions announced today are consistent with the punishments set forth in the Joint Drug Agreement, and were arrived at only after hours of intense negotiations between the […]

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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL AND MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION REACH AGREEMENT REGARDING PAYMENTS FOR PRE-1980 PLAYERS

April 21, 2011 by Mike Lynch · Leave a Comment

My friend Doug Gladstone, author of A Bitter Cup of Coffee: How MLB and The Players Association Threw 874 Retirees a Curve, has been championing the cause of MLB players who retired between 1947 and 1980 and who didn’t qualify for a pension if they had less than four years of service time. It looks […]

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874 Retired Ballplayers Are Gulping Bitter Cups of Coffee

June 30, 2010 by Doug Gladstone · Leave a Comment

In the final episode of M*A*S*H, the pompous doctor portrayed by actor David Ogden Stiers gets a sendoff thatâ€™s arguably one of the most indelible images in television history. After seven seasons of â€œMajor Charles Emerson Winchesterâ€ trumpeting his own self-importance, breeding and surgical skills, this upper-crust scion of a prominent Boston family leaves Korea […]

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