Baseball players are pledging to donate up to $1 million to Haitian earthquake relief efforts. The Major League Baseball Players Association says it is making a pair of $100,000 contributions to Esperanza International and Medicines for Humanity through the Major League Baseball Players Trust. The trust ...

Donald Fehr is set to step down after a tumultuous quarter century term as the head of the Major League Baseball's player union. "It has been a high privilege to be entrusted with the leadership of this extraordinary union for the last 25 years, and I am enormously proud of what the players have accomplished during that time," said ...

Donald Fehr is set to step down as head of the Major League Baseball's players union, the New York Times reported on Monday. Major League Baseball Players Association lawyer Michael Weiner is expected to replace Fehr, the newspaper said. The paper said Fehr would not leave his post until early 2010 because of a clause in his contract that ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Fehr, the hard-nosed chief of Major League Baseball Players' Association (MLBPA), said on Monday he would step down, ending nearly 25 years of overseeing one of the sporting world's most powerful unions. Players' association general counsel Michael Weiner will take over for Fehr, pending board approval. "It has been a high privilege to be entrusted ...