Source: www.murraychass.com --- Saturday, November 04, 2017
With the World Series over, the next Baseball development will be the Hall of Fame’s announcement of its ballot for what it calls the Modern Baseball era. The Hall of Fame has changed its ballot structure so frequently it’s not easy to keep track of the players without a scorecard. This year’s ballot, though, is the one on which the Hall gets to insult Marvin Miller yet again. That has become the Hall’s favorite sport. The Hall places Miller’s name on the ballot and turns it over to the 16-man electorate it knows will reject Miller once again. This time would be rejection No. 7. It’s as if the Hall is in cahoots with the owners in getting even with Miller for destroying the owners in every negotiation and every grievance. There is no more deserving person to be in the Hall of Fame than Miller for what he did for Baseball, not just the players but for the game and the owners. But the owners, who dominate the voting committee, are too stupid and too narrow-minded to see what Miller did for them. In May 2008, after he had been snubbed for the third time, Miller wrote to the Baseball Writers Association, which compiles the ballot, saying he no longer wanted to be considered for Hall of Fame election. Hall officials did not respond to Miller’s letter, but in the May 22, 2008 edition of The New York Times, Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson said insultingly, “We’re two years away from this process taking place again for executives. I ...
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