{"id":3443,"date":"2022-01-22T23:08:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T23:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/?p=3443"},"modified":"2022-02-07T16:36:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T16:36:59","slug":"bitter-cup-of-coffee-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/?p=3443","title":{"rendered":"Bitter Cup of Coffee List"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By any measure, these former ballplayers have demonstrated a legacy and responsibility built on equity, loyalty and fair play.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story is this: In the 1980 MLBPA CBA agreement, players from 1947-79, who were not vested, were cut of out receiving pension and benefits under the new agreement. It gets a little complicated from there; however, there are about 600 still alive. Both MLB and the MLBPA can correct this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See https:\/\/bittercupbaseball.com to learn more.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Bitter Cup List Spreadsheet<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/onedrive.live.com\/view.aspx?resid=63D91647F7D8BED0!133674&ithint=file,xlsx&authkey=!APVP7sJDYc4gDrs<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While this issue has been overlooked, there have been recent articles on the subject:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1)           Bill Madden, NY Daily News https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/baseball\/ny-mlb-cba-negotiations-right-a-wrong-20211106-vloym33ojjfxnkzij6qma7b4xm-story.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2)           Mike Woodel, Capital Journal https:\/\/www.capjournal.com\/news\/though-without-mlb-pension-bruno-relishes-post-baseball-life-in-sully-county\/article_2e56a630-f927-11eb-959e-0b02b298ff17.html<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

3) Doug Gladstone, Cleveland.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/opinion\/2022\/01\/it-may-be-too-late-for-don-dillard-but-525-major-leaguers-still-need-pensions-douglas-j-gladstone.html?outputType=amp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By any measure, these former ballplayers have demonstrated a legacy and responsibility built on equity, loyalty and fair play. The story is this: In the 1980 MLBPA CBA agreement, players from 1947-79, who were not vested, were cut of out receiving pension and benefits under the new agreement. It gets…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3443"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3509,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443\/revisions\/3509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}