Major League Baseball Players Association Rep Donald Fehr announced yesterday that he is stepping down as the union leader. His tenure since 1985 as leader of the players union has many blips on the radar.

1) 1994 players strike. His sole job was to represent the players to the best of his ability. The responsibility of the commissioner is to make sure that the game of baseball is taken care of. The blame for the 1994 players strike rests solely on Selig's shoulders.

2) Steroids. Donald Fehr was adamant about not allowing baseball to test its players. This in part led to performance enhancing drugs running rampant in the game.

3) Player salaries.  When he took over in 1985 the average player salary was $371,571 today its now over $3.15 million.

    The baseball players union is the best in sports and its no mistake. Marvin Miller was the players union rep from 1966-1982 who many consider to be one of the smartest men in the history of sports negotiating baseball's first collective bargaining agreement and helping player salaries rise from an average of $19,000 per year to $241,000 per year when he stepped down. Donald Fehr was able to follow that up with a seamless transition to unparalleled player wealth.

    The one kink in Fehr's armor that I see is that he did he job too well, out smarting Selig time and time again to the collusion settlement he won in 1990 for $280 million to scaring baseball into not testing for steroids until congress stepped in and told them to. The real shame is that he will undoubtedly be tied to the 94 strike and the steroid era and not being recognized as one of the best players union reps ever.