The 2027 Lockout Preview – The MLBPA

In 1885, John Montgomery Ward established the Brotherhood of Professional Baseball Players, which began as a benevolent society but by 1887 had morphed into the first union for professional athletes in history. It was crushed in 1890 along with the Players League and dissolved. Attempts to unionize took place in 1900, 1912, 1922, and 1946, […]