Most sport writers played it for laughs. They quipped about Second Basemen's Local 307 and overtime pay for extra-inning games. But the idea of labor unions in baseball was catching. It was no joke for the Pittsburgh Pirates; over 90% of them seemed dead set on wearing a union label. Last week, after ten days of hemming & hawing, Pirate President Bill Benswanger bowed to the spirit of the times, agreed to negotiate with the players' union.
Unionism was big talk in other big-league locker rooms. Never before had ball parks been so crowded....
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