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Marvin Miller changed major league baseball and the business of sports. Drawing on research and interviews with Miller and others, Marvin Miller, Baseball Revolutionary offers the first biography covering the pivotal labor leader's entire life and career. Baseball historian Robert F. Burk follows the formative encounters with Depression-era hard times, racial and religious bigotry, and bare-knuckle Washington and labor politics that prepared Miller for his biggest professional challenge--running the moribund Major League Baseball Players Association. Educating and uniting the players as a workforce, Miller embarked on a long campaign to win the concessions that defined his legacy: decent wor...
This book contains 104 poems that you will see evolving as you get future into the book. These poems are based on my realization that we all need God, so allow me to share with you my thoughts, as i evolve through these poems from the hood to the healer, making life so much more enjoyable as i obtain a peace of mind. My hopes are that this book help others to see, that we all can better the quality of life, if we only allow god into our life.
Marvin Miller became the first executive director of the newly formed Major League Baseball Players Association. He recounts his experience in dealing with club owners and his success in winning a new role for the players. He helped virtually end the system that bound an athlete to one team forever and thereby raised salaries enormously. formed
Four stories by the same author: 1]"A Dollar&One Cents" The perfect husband gets hit with the reality of his sexy wife. 2]"Evacuee's stackin' G'S" the levee breaks and 3 evacuees make it out safe. They put it down quick, nice and smooth. 3]"That's What It Is" a young convict finds out an older convict is a cross-country pimp, so he's out to pick his brain for the pimp game. 4]"So-Real" a young brother who is true to himself, his woman, family and friends is betrayed by his childhood friend.
When his friends seem to find girlfriends all at the same time, Marvin is left looking for a date with no prospects in sight. It seems as if nothing can ever go right for Marvin, until he finally begins a relationship with a new African-American girl in town. Unfortunately not everyone approves.
A whole different ball game: the sport and business of baseball.
The reader must find the mad scientist, Dr. XXX, and stop him from smuggling his secret formula for sludge--a tasteless substance that will turn anyone who eats it into a zombie--into school cafeterias around the world. Original.
The reader is provided evidence for ten courtroom cases, and must decide whether each defendant is guilty or innocent.
Seven baffling crimes have been committed. Study the evidence, then put together the jigsaw puzzle at the end of each case, and solve the crime.