Hall of What?

I've got more than my share of gripes about the MLB Players' Union, but did y'all see the recent boneheaded move by the Hall of Fame's Veterans' Committee? They voted to admit former commissioner Bowie Kuhn, but not former union head Marvin Miller. That's just stupid and, I think, spiteful. Miller had a MUCH larger (and better) impact on the game of baseball. Ever heard of free agency?

Anyway, Faye Vincent has an op-ed in the NY Times that shows, once again, how wrong it was for the owners to force him out as commish. Vincent simply loves the game and (this is what got him in trouble with the owners) he's interested in what is best for the game.

Miller presented the economic issues in baseball largely in moral terms. Kuhn was the lawyer who argued against change. Miller argued against evil. Guess which was more appealing?
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The members of the committee that elected Bowie Kuhn and passed on Marvin Miller should feel ashamed. But they do not. They almost surely believe that Miller and the union won the war, but they refuse him the honor of his victory. This is a set of actions by little men making small-minded decisions. Electing Kuhn and Miller together might have been a tolerable result. But electing Kuhn alone is intolerable.

These are old men trying to turn back time, to reverse what has happened. Theirs is an act of ignorance and bias. I am ashamed for them. I am ashamed that they represent our game.