Marvin Miller, who turned the Major League Baseball Players Association into one of the most powerful unions in the US, and Ted Simmons, a hard-hitting catcher, were elected Sunday to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Henry Aaron, who held the career record for home runs when he retired from baseball, was once quoted as saying:"Marvin Miller is as important to the history of baseball as Jackie Robinson."
The legendary announcer Red Barber agreed, saying in a 1992 Village Voice profile:"Marvin Miller, along with Babe Ruth and Jackie Robinson, is one of the two or three most important men in baseball history." Retired players had campaigned for almost two decades to get Miller into the Hall of Fame, He failed to win election in 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2014 and last year. When he was finally elected Sunday, it was by the hall's Modern Era Committee, which assesses the cases of baseball figures overlooked in the main annual balloting.
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