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(MLB players) Union leader Michael Weiner dies
AP via ESPN ^ | November 22, 2013

Posted on 11/22/2013 9:33:01 AM PST by EveningStar

Michael Weiner, the plain-speaking, ever-positive labor lawyer who took over as head of the powerful baseball players' union four years ago and smoothed its perennially contentious relationship with management, died Thursday, 15 months after announcing he had been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. He was 51.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Sports
KEYWORDS: michaelweiner; mlb; obituary; playersunion
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1 posted on 11/22/2013 9:33:01 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

A-Rod did it.


2 posted on 11/22/2013 10:11:00 AM PST by Tucsonican
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To: EveningStar

RIP.


3 posted on 11/22/2013 8:10:27 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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