The 6â6â³ journeyman outfielder had great extension, enough to hit 306 career homers, mostly during his prime with the Seattle Mariners and the Milwaukee Brewers. He smoked his longest career home run in Arizona off of Chicago Cubs pitcher Francis Beltran.
The unions were able to achieve collective bargaining rights in 1933, secure health and retirement benefits for the miners and their families in 1946, and push the United States Congress to enact the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act in 1969, which eventually provided some compensation for miners suffering from Black Lung Disease.
(a) Except with respect to the functions assigned to the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to section 501 of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, the functions of the Secretary of the Interior under tide Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, as amended, and the Federal Metal and Nonmetallic Mine Safety Act are transferred to the Secretary of Labor, except those which are expressly transferred to the Commission by this Act.