Posts By Doug Gladstone
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355MLBA Christmas Eve Appeal to Tony Clark
A Christmas Eve Appeal to Tony Clark Mr. Clark, Good morning. Well, it’s happened again. Another of the pre-1980 players without pensions,...
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406MLBMLB: $814 Million in FA Salaries, But Squat for Retirees w/o Pensions
Retired MLB ballplayer Carmen Fanzone, of Sherman Oaks, turned 78-years-old this past August. The previous month, Fanzone, who suffers from congestive heart...
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282MLBMarin Voice: Former MLB players in Marin not getting their due
San Rafael resident Bill Wakefield knows a lot about the toy business. That’s because he worked as an off-shore buyer for Mattel...
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438MLBGerrit Cole should thank Reno’s Jim Woods
Hopefully, free-agent pitcher Gerrit Cole will soon reveal to the world where he’s going to play baseball next season. When agent Scott Boras...
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636MLBRandy McGilberry: A Wrong That Needs To Be Corrected
Randy McGilberry knows a wrong when he sees one. So he knows that Tony Clark, who is the head of the Major...
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289MLBTony Clark Has Ice Water Running Through His Veins
Prince Albert Sports Hall of Famer Dave Pagan knows a thing or two about living in the cold. Growing up in Nipawin,...
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290MLBOzzie Osborn: Welcome to Tony Clark’s Wicked World
Ozzie Osborn doesn’t receive a Major League Baseball (MLB) pension. Not the former reality television star and singer with the heavy metal...
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460MLBMajor League Baseball: No Way to Honor #42’s Memory
There are 626 retired men and their families who played Major League Baseball who are being denied pensions by both the league...
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290MLBTony Clark and his lack of action hurting men like Pablo Arnoldo Torrealba
For a guy who is supposed to be as progressive on race relations as Tony Clark, the executive director of the union...
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243MLBYankowski: Vet, catcher, forgotten man
The following is a guest column by Douglas J. Gladstone, author of A Bitter Cup of Coffee, about one-time Philadelphia Athletics/Chicago White...