On Sunday’s unofficial opening of the Winter Meetings, the Modern Baseball Era Committee (former known as the Veterans Committee) convened to vote on this year’s group of ten players eligible for the Hall of Fame. Every year there are groups of ten who did not make the Hall of Fame their first time around who are given another chance in a vote from former players and executives. Among the ten this year, Marvin Miller and Ted Simmons got the call.
For Miller, it has been a long, long time coming. He is, without exaggeration, not only one of the most influential figures in baseball history but one of the most influential in American sports.