In runs scored, home runs, RBIs, walks, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, OPS and WAR categories, Bryce Harper is your Major League Baseball leader.
Yes, George Steinbrenner the ultimate American patriot and baseball leader, tried to undermine the American democracy by illegally giving contributions to Richard Nixon's reelection campaign.
Spalding, who was among baseball's leaders in the early 1900s, eventually inherited Wright's mountain of materials, and several years later, Chadwick willed his materials to Spalding.
The letter — contained in his papers at the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University — and other documents offer private glimpses at a serious, purposeful trade unionist who led the union into the era of free agency and who demanded that he, and the players, be taken seriously by baseball's leaders.
Selig did not quarrel when asked if he believed baseball's leaders might have been able to avert the wrongdoing described in Mitchell's report had they been more focused on it, instead of on economic issues, as was alleged by Mitchell.
THE ARTS, PAGE E1 Steroid Policy Is Criticized On the day before a hearing about steroid use in baseball, Congressional leaders accused the sport's executives and union officials of misleading Congress and the public about the strength of the new testing policy.
POWER What happens when baseball's leader in strikeouts per nine innings, Jonathan Broxton, faces baseball's home run leader of the last five seasons, Ryan Howard?
What's stopping anyone from doing it?" ■ The baseball union leader Michael Weiner's funeral drew baseball Commissioner Bud Selig and Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, adversaries who attended to honor Weiner in a 35-minute service in Paramus, N.J.
"Having been through that myself, I wouldn't wish that on anyone," said Fehr, who was the baseball union leader for a lockout in 1990 and a strike in 1994-95.
The Blue Jays held baseball's leader of runs batted in without one for an entire series, but they still lost two out of three as host Boston rallied behind Brian Daubach's homer to beat Toronto.
