SAN DIEGO — The Baseball Hall of Fame resolved a long-running injustice on Sunday and also rewarded a just-miss. Alas, for Yankees fans, the news was only bad.
Marvin Miller, the groundbreaking executive director of the Players Association, and longtime catcher Ted Simmons attained Hall election by virtue of support from a 16-person committee voting on the Modern Baseball Era, covering people whose primary contributions to the game occurred between 1970 and 1987.
With a 75 percent minimum required to get in, Simmons received votes from 13 of the 16 voters, and Miller just qualified with 12.