Hard as it is to believe now, Harrison “Harry” Marino ’17 discovered his vocation a decade ago, shooting the breeze on bullpen benches, on crowded bus rides and on late-night fast food runs in towns from Aberdeen, Maryland, to Peoria, Arizona.
Back then, Marino spent two years as a minor league baseball player in the lowest rungs of the Arizona Diamondbacks and Baltimore Orioles organizations. He spent hours talking with his teammates, sharing their dreams of making the majors and commiserating about their minuscule salaries. While a few stars go on to earn millions, players in the low minors could earn as little as $500 a week. Many lived below the poverty line.
Last year, Marino led the organizing of minor league players into a union. In late March of this year, in his new role as assistant general counsel for the Major League Baseball Players Association, he helped negotiate the first collective bargaining agreement for minor leaguers. The deal promises to raise salaries and improve working conditions for more than 5,500 players.
It is an unusual road for a former moot court star and appellate clerk to follow, but Marino’s career path has not been as direct as a trip around the bases. Back in 2012, like most graduates of Williams College, Marino had a lot of professional options before him, but he wanted to chase his dream of playing professional baseball. Though he had been a good collegiate player, even throwing a no-hitter his senior year, he went undrafted before...
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