If Tony Clark had asked, I would have suggested the Major League Baseball Players Association chief give a holiday read of Doris Kearns Goodwin's book "Leadership: In Turbulent Times." Within it, she writes about the different leadership styles of Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt as they faced the nation's worst financial crisis of their times -- of any time.
As president, Hoover mostly did nothing and changed nothing, believing that the situation brought on by the Great Depression would correct itself. Once Roosevelt was inaugurated in the spring of 1933, he attacked the problems with an approach learned through the years when he went through rehabilitation for polio: If it's not working, try something different.