Introduction [excerpts] Chapter 1 of this paper will examine the past history of baseball labor relations, from the earliest days of the players' unsuccessful attempts to unionize, early days of player free agency, and labor schisms that led to significant work stoppages in 1972 and 1981. The late 1980s would see collusion by team owners to keep player salaries down, as well as the eventual installation of one of their own, Bud Selig, as commissioner. The effect was to set players and owners upon an unavoidable...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of dissertations written by students enrolled in the Monmouth University graduate Educational Leadership program. The holdings are primarily bound print documents that were submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Doctor of Education degree.During the fall 2022 semester (in instances where the requisite waivers were received from consenting student...