In the mid-1990s, Miller, an economist and negotiator for the United Steelworkers, came over to the world of baseball, where players were happy just to be playing the game they loved. Well, in the same way that a skewer can be said to be the adversary to the kebab. But the post-Democrat relied on advertising dollars of the Busch family, which also owned the Cardinals, so it's easy to see why they'd be hostile to Mr. Louis newspaper once advised, would do the game of baseball a great favor if he disappeared, got lost or found the nearest hole and jumped into it. He was the former executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, and he led the effort to end the rule that kept players on one team their entire career. Marvin Miller died earlier today at the age of 95. And he did it not with a bat or a slider, but with two words: free agency.
Now, we remember a man who helped transform Major League Baseball. This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News.
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