Former baseball union head Marvin Miller dead at 95

Posted: 11.27.2012 at 10:05 AM

(AP) -- Marvin Miller, the union leader who created free agency for baseball players and revolutionized professional sports with multimillion dollar contracts, died Tuesday. He was 95.

Miller died at his home in Manhattan at 5:30 a.m., said his daughter Susan Miller.

He had been diagnosed with liver cancer in August.

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