Baseball Hall of Fame Veterans

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Former commissioner Bowie Kuhn was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee on Monday while his longtime adversary, players' union boss Marvin Miller, was left out for the second time this year.

Former Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley, Pirates owner Barney Dreyfuss and managers Dick Williams and Billy Southworth were also elected.

 

To have Bowie Kuhn in the Hall of Fame and leave Marvin Miller out is an absolute travesty...especially since many of the Veterans Committee voters made millions and millions of dollars solely because of Marvin Miller.

 

Deadbeat Bowie . . . and O'Malley, the same year?

Gag.

 

Agreed on that, spnited. Miller shaped the modern game more than anyone dead or alive.

And I'm real, real surprised O'Malley made it, even though he was probably long overdue (to speak nothing of Dreyfuss. Geez.) I wonder if that outstanding HBO special had anything to do with helping his cause ...

 

Well I was refusing to attend the Baseball Hall of Fame until Bowie Kuhn was inducted. Now I can plan my trip. Hooray!

 

Is there anyone left in Brooklyn to be POed about O'Malley getting in?
It seems that Robert Moses had as much to do with the Dodgers going to LA as O'Malley, still...

 

Holy fuck.
Missouri is now on the second most egregious screw-ee of the week.
More evidence behind the proposition that the best thing that could happen to the Baseball Hall of Fame is a crack in the world that swallows that whorehouse up.

 

I agree 100 percent with your sentiment but the latest panel the HOF trotted out
was even more stacked against Marvin than the past committees. There was only one player from Marvin's era -- Harmon Killebrew -- and, according to Marvin's book, Killebrew wasn't particularly supportive back in the day. Beyond that, there were several rabid anti-unionists on the 12-person panel, like David Glass, Bill DeWitt and Bill Giles.

Marvin got three votes and I'd guess they came from the three veteran media guys on the panel -- Paul Hagen (Philadelphia Daily News), Rick Hummel (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) and Hal McCoy (Dayton Daily News).

Marvin and everyone who knows and likes Marvin knew the panel was stacked against him from the beginning.

 

Putting Bowie Kuhn into the Hall of Fame isn't "in the best interest of baseball."

 

Can't argue with any of this.

 

Thanks Cran. Didn't realize this was the "other" vets committee. not the onle with all the living Hall of Famers.

Still, Kuhn and not Miller is a travesty by any measure.