Tom Reich, pioneering MLB and NHL agent, dead at 82
By RONALD BLUM
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PARK CITY, UT - JANUARY 20: Sports Agent Tom Reich attends "No No: A Dockumentary" Premiere during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at Temple Theater on January 20, 2014 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Robin Marchant/Getty Images for Sundance)
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Thomas M. Reich, a pioneering baseball agent with an ebullient, oversized personality who helped players gain multimillion dollar salaries in the early years of free agency, died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 82.
Reich had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in December 2019.
"Tom Reich was among the preeminent player representatives of his era," the Major League Baseball Players Association said in a statement. "Players and our union benefited from both his keen intellect and wise counsel over many decades."