American Baseball Guild
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title:
American Baseball Guild
text:
The American Baseball Guild was a short-lived American trade union that attempted to organize Major League Baseball (MLB) players into a collective bargaining unit in 1946. Created by Robert Murphy, a Harvard-educated labor lawyer from Boston, it failed to take root when Murphy could not convince a two-thirds majority of the Pittsburgh Pirates' active players to authorize a strike before a National League game on June 7, 1946. That summer, MLB owners — also shaken by the Mexican League raids tha
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Former trade union of the United States
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Baseball_Guild
date created:
2019-09-23T14:04:49Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T12:05:00Z
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