National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Peter D. Miller, son of Marvin J. Miller. © Ray Fisher
In May 2008, Marvin Miller wrote a letter to the Baseball Writers’ Association of America:
“Paradoxically, I’m writing to thank you and your associates for your part in nominating me for Hall of Fame consideration, and, at the same time, to ask that you not do this again.”
Two and a half decades after he’d retired as executive director of the players’ union, Miller had just been passed over by the veterans committee for the third time.