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SABR36 Panel: Collective Bargaining Agreement
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SABR36 Panel: Collective Bargaining Agreement
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| By The SABR Office |
Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) Panel
3-4:30PM, Superior/Municipal
The CBA is the working agreement between Major League Baseball and the Players' Association. The first bargaining agreement was signed in 1968, and hammering them out has never been a simple matter. Both the history and future of the CBA process were discussed. Panelists included Dick Moss, Andrew Zimbalist and Mike Marshall, with ESPN's Rob Neyer moderating.
Mike Marshall
Many fans know Mike Marshall holds the single season major league record for games pitched with 106 for the Los Angeles Dodger in 1974. Fewer fans also know he occupies third place (92) and fifth place (90) on that list.
Marshall won the NL Cy Young Award in 1974 when the surprise Dodgers went to the World Series, losing to the Oakland As. In 15 seasons, Marshall pitched in 723 games for Detroit, Seattle, Houston, Montreal, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Texas, Minnesota and the New York Mets.
He compiled a career record of 97-112 and an ERA of 3.14. He led the league in saves three times. His career totals of three complete games and one shutout came for Seattle in 1969.
Before his major league debut for the Detroit Tigers in 1967, Marshall earned a masters degree at Michigan State University. He completed his Ph.D. in kinesiology in 1978 at MSU.
Dick Moss
Dick Moss has represented over 200 Major League Baseball players in his career as a sports agent, including both Hall of Famers and role players. Before becoming an agent, Moss was the general counsel for the Major League Baseball Player's Association.
Moss graduated from Harvard Law School in 1955. After a stint in the Army, he joined a Pittsburgh law firm until joining the Steelworkers Union. At the Steelworkers Union, Moss held the positions of assistant general counsel and associate general counsel in charge of the legal department at the union's international headquarters. Marvin Miller, who had been the Steelworkers' chief economic adviser, asked Moss to join him at the Major League Baseball Player's Association in 1967 to become the general counsel of the MLBPA.
Moss held the general counsel position with the Players Association for 11 years, where he was an architect of the salary arbitration system, and argued all of the union's legal and arbitration cases, including the monumental Messersmith case that ended baseball's onerous reserve system and created free agency for players.
Leaving the Players Association, Moss decided to represent a few players individually to show other agents "how it should be done." By the mid-'80s, Moss had a stable of clients that included the likes of Andre Dawson, Gary Carter, Jack Morris, Nolan Ryan, and Fernando Valenzuela.
Andrew Zimbalist
Andrew Zimbalist is recognized as the preeminent economist on the sports landscape today. He is the author of Baseball and Billions A Probing Look Inside the Big Business of Our National Pastime; Sports, Jobs and Taxes: The Economic Impact of Sports Teams and Stadiums; Unpaid Professionals: Commercialism and Conflict in Big Time College Sports; May the Best Team Win: Baseball Economics and Public Policy; and National Pastime: How Americans Play Baseball and the Rest of the World Plays Soccer. His latest book, In the Best Interests of Baseball? The Revolutionary Reign of Bud Selig, was released by Wiley in March. He is the Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics at Smith College and lives in Northampton, Massachusetts with his wife and children.
Rob Neyer, Moderator Rob Neyer is a senior baseball writer for ESPN.com, contributing two or three columns a week to the MLB Insider, occasional appearances on ESPN Radio and ESPN News, and an ongoing blog at robneyer.com. Rob, a long-suffering Kansas City Royals fan, apprenticed nearly twenty years ago as research assistant for Bill James. Neyer authored Baseball Dynasties (with Eddie Epstein), The Big Book of Baseball Lineups, Feeding the Green Monster, and the 2005 Sporting News-SABR Award winning The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers. The latest is Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders: A Complete Guide to the Worst Decisions and Stupidest Moments in Baseball History, released in May by Fireside. Rob lives with wife Kristien and son Micah in Portland, Oregon.
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