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On February 5, 2022February 5, 2022
Doug Gladstone

A Valentine’s Appeal to Tony Clark, Executive Director, Major League Baseball Players’ Association

Mr. Clark, Well, it’s happened again. I just learned that another of the pre-1980 players without pensions, George Spriggs, recently passed away. He was 83-years-od at the time of his death. So like The Queen song says, another one bites the dust. That makes 525 men left. When do you say […]

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On January 19, 2022January 19, 2022
Doug Gladstone

MLB: Pre-1980 Players Without a Pension List Now Stands at 525

Four years after they first compiled a record of what they believed was the penultimate list of the names of every past big leaguer who accrued at least one game day of service on an active Major League Baseball (MLB) roster since 1947 — the year the players’ pension fund […]

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On January 13, 2022January 13, 2022
Doug Gladstone

He Gets No Pension Because Nobody in Baseball Has Character

The resume of David Machemer, a Benton Harbor resident who attended Central Michigan University, boasts more than 1,000 victories as a minor league manager for such organizations as the San Francisco Giants, Baltimore Orioles, and Montreal Expos. Machemer, whose minor league service isn’t pension creditable, is also one of 607 […]

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On July 27, 2021July 26, 2021
Doug Gladstone

An Injustice That Just Bites

Lucas Giolito may be a great pitcher, but does he have any appreciation for what former South Side pitchers Gerry Janeski and Rich Hinton are going through? Tim Anderson may be one the most exciting players in baseball, a social justice warrior with the Players Alliance, and a natural showman […]

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On July 26, 2021July 26, 2021
Doug Gladstone

MLB Feature: Is Max Mad About Retirees’ Situation?

Seventy-one-year-old Roy Staiger, who lives in Lebanon, Missouri, played for the New York Mets from 1975 through 1977 and the New York Yankees in 1979. He appeared in 152 career games, came up to bat 457 times, collected 104 hits, including four home runs, one triple and 29 doubles, scored […]

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On March 25, 2021March 25, 2021
Doug Gladstone

The Elephant in the Room

The great South African cleric and anti-apartheid activist Desmond Tutu once said that “if you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. “If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse […]

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On November 23, 2020November 23, 2020
Doug Gladstone

“All in The Family? — NOT!”

Believe it or not, there are 618 former players being hosed out of pensions by Major League Baseball and the union representing the players, the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA). Who doesn’t receive a pension from MLB you’re wondering? Well, there are men like Donald Edward Reynolds, a former […]

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On August 27, 2020August 27, 2020
Doug Gladstone

Mr. Meyer: The 600+ retirees w/o pensions and 700+ retirees w/o COLA’s

Mr. Meyer, Good afternoon. I hope this finds you and yours healthy and safe during these troubling times. You may or may not know who I am. For more than one decade, I’ve attempted to do right by the pre-1980 players who had more than 43 game days but less […]

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On May 26, 2020August 20, 2020
John Doucette

MLB owners make a new pitch to players, but will a deal get done?

To get back on the field, or not get back on the field. That is the question facing both the owners and players of Major League Baseball this holiday weekend. On Tuesday, it is expected that the owners will take another stab at getting the game back on the diamond […]

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On December 15, 2019August 20, 2020
Doug Gladstone

MLB: $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 failure, went to UCLA Medical Center to successfully have a sensor inserted into his pulmonary artery. These days, Fanzone is wondering whether he also needs his head examined. […]

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