THE MLBPA TURNS 60
In the spring of 1966, Major League Baseball Players elected Marvin Miller, a 48-year-old staff economist with the United Steelworkers of America, as the first full-time executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association. Miller negotiated baseball's first collective bargaining agreement two years later, paving the way for a series of advances that would awaken Players to their collective power and forever change the economics of the game.
This year, as the MLBPA celebrates its 60th anniversary, the union and its members will embark upon negotiations for a new CBA to replace the existing agreement, which expires on December 1, 2026. In conjunction with these two events, the union has produced a pair of videos that details our origins, the challenges we have confronted and overcome together across decades, and the enduring quest to protect and defend the rights of Players.
In this momentous calendar year, we’ll see Players remain unified in pursuit of a common purpose. We can pay no better tribute to Marvin Miller, Curt Flood, Andy Messersmith and other seminal figures in union history than by continuing the fight to preserve and build upon their legacy.
