Nightly News   |  November 27, 2012

Marvin Miller, baseball union leader, dies at 95

One of the most influential figures in American sports, Marvin Miller helped change the game of baseball by increasing players’ salaries and improving their benefits. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.

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>>> when he took the job as leader of the major league players union in 66, the minimum salary back then was $6,000, and the owners had all the power. by 1982 , when he retired, the union was one of the strongest in the u.s. the average player's salary was almost a quarter million dollars. the players had won free agency . he was by any standard a game changer. marvin miller was 95.