Posted on 06/22/2009 8:25:19 PM PDT by Artemis Webb
NEW YORK (AP)—Donald Fehr’s quarter century in charge of the players’ association was marked by a strike that canceled the World Series, record salaries and eventually 14 years of labor peace.
And to his detractors, it was marred by a go-slow approach to steroids.
Fehr, who turns 61 next month, said Monday he will leave the powerful union no later than the end of March. Fehr recommended that he be succeeded by union general counsel Michael Weiner, the No. 3 official and his longtime heir apparent. The move is subject to approval by the union’s executive board and possible ratification by all players.
“I have no hesitancy in recommending to the players that he be given the opportunity to do this job,” Fehr said.
The 47-year-old Weiner will lead negotiations for the next contract; the current labor agreement expires in December 2011.
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This guy oversaw the steroidization of major league baseball. Because of his Sergeant Schultz instincts many records of better men were stolen. After it became obvious what really happened during his reign, he tried to carry out the biggest coverup in major league baseball history. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Let’s hope his replacement has some degree of honor.
If the owners would have held tough through that year then the players would have returned under whatever conditions the owners demanded. Given two to three years of playing without the original players no one would have known the difference and the Union would be broken. Tickets would be cheaper and hot dogs wouldn't be $4.
This will be his legacy. He fought drug testing tooth and nail. That and getting millionaires to strike.
It isn’t the $4 hot dogs that bother me. It’s the $8 beers.
“Good riddance to bad rubbish.”
I think someone should tie Don Fehr and Bud Selig together and pitch them into the water in the midst of a feeding frenzy of Great White Sharks.
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