In 1994, MLB players walked off the job after months of failed labor negotiations. A month later, acting Commissioner Bud Selig cancelled the remaining regular season. That’s when the President of the United States stepped in and helped. Or tried to.
Selig hopped on a plane in Milwaukee and arrived in D.C. for the meeting on Oct. 14.
The sides quibbled over the salary cap, free agency, how much payroll tax teams should pay and how to distribute that revenue to the league’s smaller clubs.Back To The White House Selig knew the owners wouldn’t be happy about Usery’s recommendation of a 50% luxury tax on payrolls above $40 million per season. But …
Selig figured the union had also agreed on Usery’s terms, and that there’d be a new labor deal just in time for a full 1995 MLB season. Selig walked into the Roosevelt Room for a private meeting. Selig says he glanced at Bill Clinton. He had expected the president to hold the union to its word that it would accept Usery’s recommendations. Clinton quickly looked away and then ducked out of the Roosevelt Room. After a desperate, last-minute attempt to hammer out an agreement, the meeting ended abruptly."And Bill Usery said, 'Harry S. Truman never did this to me. Dwight David Eisenhower never did this to me. John F.
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