1965 The Long Range Sharing Plan Marvin Miller BASEBALL'S LAWYER FOR FREE AGENCY

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This article found online tells the story - here is the title, author, and first paragraph from that article:
"The Boys of Winter: How Marvin Miller, Andy Messersmith and Dave
McNally Brought Down Baseball’s Historic Reserve System
By: Ben Heuer
Early one morning in December of 1965 Marvin Miller stepped into an elevator at
San Francisco’s Fairmont Hotel where he was attending the Kaiser Steel Long-Range
Sharing Plan Committee meeting. Miller, a dapper gentleman with a pencil thin
mustache, had made a name for himself in labor relations circles as a hearing officer at
the Labor Board during World War II. The elevator doors slowly opened to reveal a
familiar face, Dr. George W. Taylor who had been the Labor Board’s national chairman
in Washington. Dr. Taylor was one of the most prominent labor relations experts at the
time, having served as an advisor to every President from Herbert Hoover to LBJ and was
at the time the dean of the Wharton School in Pennsylvania. Dr. Taylor stepped into the
elevator and immediately asked Miller: “Do you know Robin Roberts.” Robin Roberts,
an ace pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies who had won twenty games in six seasons,
was leading a committee of players in search of a new executive director of the Major
League Baseball Players Association and contacted Dr. Taylor for his recommendation.
Roberts expressed his desire for a candidate who would be more effective in dealing with
contracts, management and especially pension plans. Dr. Taylor immediately thought of
Marvin Miller. By the end of the elevator ride Miller had agreed to interview for the
position and in two weeks he was in Cleveland sitting before the Major League Baseball
players who comprised the search committee. It was the beginning of the end of
baseball’s historic “reserve system”; a system which for a century had kept ballplayer’s
salaries low by restricting the freedom of players to contract with any team other than the
one they first signed with. In ten years time, the Major League Baseball Players
Association, under the skillful guidance of Marvin Miller, would win the right for a
ballplayer to be a free agent. This story begins, however, more than a century ago with
the implementation of the reserve system in professional baseball."
Well, here is a document produced by Marvin Miller, "The Long Range Sharing Plan", which I'm assuming was produced for that meeting cited above or, if not, for that effort generally.  It is clean, staple-bound, 15 pages long.  The opening paragraph of the booklet cites the 1959 Agreement between Kaiser Steel Corporation and United Steelworkers of America, and goes from there.
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