MLBPA statement on Sam McDowell
Oct 7
1 min read
Updated: Oct 10
Listen below to Sam McDowell's interview on Stitch x Stitch:
Earlir this year, six-time All-Star Sam “Sudden Sam” McDowell joined Stitch x Stitch for an unfiltered look at the early years of the MLBPA and the uphill battles Players faced long before free agency reshaped the game. Raised in a Pittsburgh union household, McDowell first encountered Marvin Miller as a child attending a steelworkers’ meeting with his father. He immersed himself in union leadership as a young strikeout machine with the Cleveland Indians in the 1960s, and never hesitated to make his voice heard or his presence felt during the formative years of the MLBPA.
