Players' union honors past Executive Director through popular scholarship program
SOURCE:Major League Baseball Players Trust
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Major League Baseball Players Association Executive Director Tony Clark told Michael Weiner Scholarship for Labor Studies recipients all about the man for whom the award is named during a luncheon in their honor at the union's Manhattan headquarters on Monday, June 5.
“Michael was an encourager,” Clark told students. “He was someone who I leaned on quite a bit. He’s someone who reminds us daily of what we’re doing and why.”
In attendance as guests of the MLBPA and its Players Trust, the foundation that administers the scholarship in honor of Weiner, were 2017 award recipients Melissa Britton, Colleen Fewer, Samantha Groark, Susannah Maltz and Tyler Somes, as well as Denis Nolasco, a 2016 recipient who was studying abroad at the time of last year’s luncheon.
The scholarship recipients had the opportunity to meet Clark; members of the scholarship committee, including Diane Margolin (Weiner’s widow), General Counsel Dave Prouty and Assistant General Counsel Bob Lenaghan; Players Trust Director, Melissa Persaud; Curt Flood’s widow, Judy Pace Flood; Weiner’s daughters, Margie and Sally, as well as other members of the Players Association staff.
Prouty opened the event by welcoming the recipients and stressing the importance of the scholarship, which is named after the Players Association’s late executive director, as well as the efforts of the winners.
“The fact that you are a recipient of the Michael Weiner Scholarship (for Labor Studies) is very important,” Prouty said.
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