Michael Weiner, Baseball Players Union Executive, Dies at 51

Michael Weiner, who guided Major League Baseball players through three collective bargaining agreements and in 2009 became executive director of the MLB Players Association, died after a 15-month battle with brain cancer. He was 51.

Weiner died yesterday with his wife and three daughters by his side at their New Jersey home, the union said in an e-mailed statement. He was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor in August 2012 and continued to work while receiving radiation and chemotherapy.