Filed under: MLB Hall of Fame, MLB Winter Meetings
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Marvin Miller fell one vote short of election to the Baseball Hall of Fame via the Veterans Committee Monday, and that snub left the founding executive director of the Major League Baseball Players' Association angry.
"The Baseball Hall of Fame's vote (or non-vote) of December 5, hardly qualifies as a news story. It is repetitively negative, easy to forecast, and therefore boring," Miller said in a statement released by the MLBPA.
He continued: "Many years ago those who control the Hall decided to rewrite history instead of recording it. The aim was to eradicate the history of the tremendous impact of the players' union on the progress and development of the game as a competitive sport, as entertainment, and as an industry. The union was the moving force in bringing Major League Baseball from the 19th century to the 21st century.
"It brought about expansion of the game to cities that had never had a Major League team. It brought about more than a 50 percent increase in the number of people employed as players, coaches, trainers, managers, club presidents, attorneys and other support personnel, employees of concessionaires, stadium maintenance personnel, parking lot attendants, and more. It converted a salary structure from one with a $6,000 a year minimum salary to a $414,000 a year salary from the first day of a player's major league service.
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Source: http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2010/12/06/marvin-miller-slams-veterans-committee-after-latest-hall-of-fame/
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