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With 60 active players in his stable, Gilbert represents almost 9 percent of the 700 Major League Baseball players. In each of the last four years, Gilbert's clients have signed the biggest contracts in baseball, including this year's $43.7 million agreement between outfielder Barry Bonds and the San Francisco Giants. The contract was the richest in the history of baseball.
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The Major League Baseball Players Association is pleased to announce an exciting new den meeting program available for Boy, Cub and Webelos Scouts. Packs are invited to visit a local hobby shop to learn all about baseball cards, ways to collect them and play fun card games.
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The Major League Baseball Players Association and Major League Baseball concluded the 2008 Rookie Career Development Program (RCDP) on Sunday in Virginia. The annual RCDP, a joint effort that launched in 1991, brings together many of the top young prospects from all 30 Major League Clubs for a four-day symposium that aims to help prepare them for careers in Major League Baseball.
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In 1968, the Major League Baseball Players Association negotiated the first-ever Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) in professional sports. It has evolved and strengthened over the years with each generation of players, sometimes at great personal sacrifice, ensuring the continuity of rights for the next.
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The NFL Player Pension Fund is sometimes compared to the pension fund for Major League Baseball players, often without all of the facts being presented. A future FAQ will deal with this comparison in more detail, but the NFL Player Pension is much better funded (that is more of its obligations are covered by its assets). The baseball players’ pension plan was under-funded as of April, 2004 (the latest public filing) by $904 million, and its assets were only 60.7% of its obligations on that date.
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"The names and playing records of major league baseball players as used in CBC's fantasy games are not copyrightable," Medler wrote in CBC Distribution and Marketing v. Major League Baseball Advanced Media. "Therefore, federal copyright law does not pre-empt the players' claimed right of publicity."
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