{"id":3520,"date":"2022-06-07T22:04:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T22:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/?p=3520"},"modified":"2022-06-07T22:04:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T22:04:22","slug":"mlb-mlbpa-pension-reform-from-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/?p=3520","title":{"rendered":"MLB MLBPA Pension Reform from 1985"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220426_102625-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220426_102625-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220426_102625-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220426_102625-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220426_102625-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220426_102625-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220426_102625-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220426_102625-1-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220426_102625-1-1200x1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Early Wynn from 1985:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cModern ballplayers tell us, \u2018Too bad, you should have invested better. But on salaries of 10 to 15 thousand dollars a year, how many in\u00advestments could you make? They could at least triple the pension for the old guys and give us hospitalization.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;When I went to the players union last year looking tor more money for my old-timers, I was told, &#8216;We don&#8217;t want to discuss it now. Let&#8217;s discuss it just before the next Basic Agreement comes due in 1989.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I said to the union, &#8216;I can&#8217;t wait that long, fellas. By that time, an\u00adother 150 people who need your help will be dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sportingnews\">@sportingnews<\/a>, May 16, 1985 p.16<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Today there are just over 500 former MLB alums remain<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early Wynn from 1985: \u201cModern ballplayers tell us, \u2018Too bad, you should have invested better. But on salaries of 10 to 15 thousand dollars a year, how many in\u00advestments could you make? They could at least triple the pension for the old guys and give us hospitalization.\u201d &#8220;When I went&#8230;<\/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-3520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520","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=3520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3522,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions\/3522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}