Ray Grebey, Major League Baseball's lead labor negotiator in the early 1980s, dies

... during the tumultuous 50-day strike that split the 1981 season, has died. He was 85. Mr. Grebey died Aug. 28 in Stamford, Conn., and a memorial Mass was held Wednesday at St. Timothy's Church in Greenwich, Conn. His son, Clarence R. (Bud) Grebey ...

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