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NEW YORK -- You may have heard:

NEW YORK -- When baseball players agreed a decade ago to restraints on signing bonuses for draft picks, then-union head Michael Weiner said: "If it doesn't work, we can always try something else."

When baseball players agreed a decade ago to restraints on signing bonuses for draft picks, then-union head Michael Weiner said: "If it doesn't work, we can always try something else."

... because it looks like we’re headed for another one.

This July 16, 1981 file photo shows US baseball union leader Marvin Miller speaking to reporters after rejecting a proposal to end a baseball strike, in New York. (AP Photo/Howard, File) It took several tries, but Marvin Miller, the longtime Jewish Major League Baseball Players Association chief who changed the sport by transforming the US players’ union into a powerhouse, will finally be inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame. There’s one catch — the pandemic-delayed induction ceremony ...

Tom Reich, pioneering MLB and NHL agent, dead at 82 By RONALD BLUM article PARK CITY, UT - JANUARY 20: Sports Agent Tom Reich attends "No No: A Dockumentary" Premiere during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at Temple Theater on January 20, 2014 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Robin Marchant/Getty Images for Sundance) Expand Thomas M. Reich, a pioneering baseball agent with an ebullient, oversized personality who helped players gain multimillion dollar salaries in the early years of free agency, ...

Tom Reich, pioneering baseball and hockey agent, dies at 82 By RONALD BLUMJuly 3, 2021 GMT Tom Reich, left, and Kevin McClatchy pose for photos in Pittsburgh for a 50th anniversary event of the 1960 World Series, at PNC Park on Oct. 13, 2010. McClatchy owned the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1996 to 2007. Reich, a pioneering baseball agent with an ebullient, oversized personality who helped players gain multimillion dollar salaries in the early years of free agency, died Friday, July 2, 2021, at Ceda...

Longtime Designer, Author, Educator, Leader Patrick Michael Redmond, M.A., an Irish American graphic designer, artist, author, former art director and retired educator, has received an inaugural 2021 Irish Echo Arts & Culture Award. He was honored with several other award recipients – only Patrick was primarily identified as “designer” or “graphic designer” – in a virtual celebration broadcast from Ireland in late April. The honorees are “arts and culture heroes of the pandemic fr...