It was a good week for Bob Costas, who was named this year’s winner of the Baseball Hall of Fame’s Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasters.
It wasn’t so good for the late Marvin Miller.
“If I had to pick one person who is missing from the Hall of Fame and I think should be there, it’s Marvin Miller,” Costas said by phone this week.
The first executive director of the players union, a man who played as big a role as anyone during his 1966-83 tenure in making baseball what it is today, Miller was shot down for inclusion in Cooperstown for a seventh time.