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Former baseball union head dies at 95

NBA, NFL lockouts highlight rise of sports unions
Marvin Miller (center), then director of the Major League Players association, talks to New York Mets players Tom Seaver and Ed Kranepool after players voted to strike in 1972

Legendary labor organizer Marvin Miller died Tuesday morning. Yahoo! Sports' Jeff Passan says Miller was baseball's "greatest visionary, one whose ideas and ideals spawned free agency, spurred the transactional madness that keeps MLB relevant year-round and hastened sports' transformation into the world's greatest entertainment industry."