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Take It From Marvin Miller: NFL Owners, Players in Trouble

You've had the Evil Owners in baseball. They spent decades using their version of legalized slavery called the reserve clause. They were so ruthless that they refused to make ticket adjustments the season after the Great Depression. They took forever to integrate the game. They triggered the Mother of All Strikes that...

Baseball Hall of Fame Hits and Misses

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- The National Baseball Hall of Fame increased its membership by one on Monday with longtime executive Pat Gillick's election. Perhaps more news was made, however, by who didn't make the cut this time around. FanHouse TV's Steve Phillips, Dan Graziano and John Hickey were there for the announcement...

Marvin Miller's Continued Exclusion From Cooperstown a Travesty

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- The biggest travesty in the Hall of Fame was perpetuated again Monday. Marvin Miller, the first director of the players' union, came up one vote shy of being elected into the Hall of Fame by the Expansion Era Committee. All Miller did in his almost two decades at the helm of the union was to...

Marvin Miller Slams Veterans Committee After Latest Hall of Fame Snub

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...

Pat Gillick Elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Longtime baseball executive Pat Gillick is the newest member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Gillick was elected by the Expansion Era Committee, the only candidate on a ballot of eight former players, three executives and one manager to receive the necessary 75 percent of the vote. "I...

Marvin Miller News From the Web

05/17/12 Pensacola Police crack down on sales of 'Spice' Source: Pensacola News Journal - Pensacola FL The Pensacola Police Department has warned two businesses about selling packets of synthetic marijuana, or Spice.
04/26/12 Expanded Horizons: An Hour with Marvin Miller by Tommy... Source: Baseball Prospectus Marvin Miller is a throwback to a past eraâmaybe two or three eras ago.
04/25/12 Baseball Players Deserve Their Pay, Bankers Don't Source: Deal Journal - The Wall Street Journal Alex Rodriguez earned his $30 million salary, but Wall Street fat cats havent.
04/11/12 Baseball strikes out with Curt Flood and Marvin Miller Source: New Pittsburgh Courier - Pittsburgh PA (NNPA)âIt's April and the 2012 baseball season has begun.

Background on Marvin Miller

Marvin Julian Miller (born April 14, 1917, in The Bronx, New York City) is a former executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA), from 1966 to 1982. Under Miller's direction, the players' union was transformed into one of the strongest unions in the United States.

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