His MLBPA and his ownership foes have engaged in more labor wars (seven work stoppages) than any other sport. Some would call Miller a destroyer of the game. That's exactly what the enshrinement category he was up for - along with Kuhn, the late Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley and the late Pirates owner Barney Dreyfuss, who were also elected by the committee - was supposed to designate. There's an argument against Miller as a builder of the game. It has made the BCS bowl process seem, by contrast, a wholly rational and transparent undertaking.
Now, the Hall of Fame veterans committee has done the seemingly impossible. As the inept figurehead of the owners, Kuhn tried to preserve the status quo. As the intrepid head of the players union, Miller reshaped the sport's economics. 000 against Miller in baseball's pivotal labor battles of the 1970s and '80s.
The late commissioner compiled a lifetime batting average of. Recognize that ex-player standing behind him? In 1972, Marvin Miller announced the end of baseball's first strike.
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