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Marvin Miller will tell you that he is just a labor negotiator. History will tell you that he changed baseball forever. Both are true.
Miller was a very successsful labor economist (for the United Auto Workers and then the United Steelworkers) when he was hired to be the Executive Director of the Major League Baseball Players Association ("MLBPA") in 1966.
Through his efforts and guidance, Miller was able to transform the MLBPA from a relatively ineffective, loosely affiliated group of ballplayers to the most powerful union in the history of sports, and perhaps even in the history of American Business. Miller was also instrumental in creating free agency and increasing the average salaries of players more than tenfold during his reign as union chief.
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