5,500 Players, One Union: Inside the Fight to Unionize Minor League Baseball

Episode 1

The debut episode of Sports Solidarity with Harry Marino features Joe Hudson, Jose Brizuela, and Brandon Withers, professional baseball players who helped drive the campaign to organize thousands of minor leaguers. 

Together, they take listeners inside the historic unionization of Minor League Baseball and share the untold story of how the movement formed inside clubhouses across the country.

They reflect on life in the minors before the union, including low pay, difficult living conditions, and daily uncertainty, and how players overcame fear to build a 5,500-player movement.

The conversation covers the key turning points that transformed organizing into a national effort, and what it took to win a first collective bargaining agreement that reshaped conditions for thousands of future players.

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