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Several angry major league players wanted Alex Rodriguez kicked out of their union after he sued it last week, but staff lawyers told them expulsion was not allowed. The players spoke Jan. 13 during a Major League Baseball Players Association conference call after Rodriguez sued the union and Major League Baseball to overturn an arbitrator's decision suspending him for the 2014 season and postseason. The union and Rodriguez spokesman Ron Berkowitz declined comment. Baseball's labor contract specifies the union is ''the sole and exclusive bargaining agent for all major league players.'' The union will incur costs of defending the lawsuit by the New York Yankees third baseman, who claimed in the suit it ''breached its duty of fair representation to Mr. Rodriguez.'' Rodriguez was suspended for 211 games by baseball Commissioner Bud Selig on Aug. 5, and the union filed a grievance contending the discipline was without ''just cause.'' The penalty was reduced to 162 games plus the 2014 postseason by arbitrator Fredric Horowitz, who concluded Rodriguez violated baseball's drug agreement each year from 2010-12 and twice obstructed MLB's investigation in violation of the sport's labor contract.
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