Major League Baseball Players Association

…who, as head of the Major League Baseball (MLB) Players Association, drove successful efforts to improve ballplayers’ labour rights, revolutionizing the business of professional sports as a result.

…in substance achieved by the Major League Baseball Players Association—founded in 1953 but largely ineffectual until 1966, when it hired as executive director Marvin Miller, a former labor-union official who also had been active in government in labor-management relations. A skillful negotiator, he secured players’ rights and benefits contractually and…