Hall of Mirrors

I see the reconstituted and renamed Veterans Committee has another opportunity to vote Marvin Miller into Cooperstown. I've already scored a TKO on this particular horse and will go to my corner after a few short words.

A Baseball Hall of Fame without Marvin Miller is like a Civil War Hall of Fame without Robert E. Lee. A Baseball Hall of Fame that includes Bowie Kuhn and not Miller is like a Basketball Hall of Fame that shuns the Harlem Globetrotters while admitting the Washington Generals.

Whether you were on his side or not, Miller is one of the five most influential people in the history of the game. (Who else? The Babe, Branch Rickey, Jackie Robinson. That's the list.)

Baseball's failure to vote Miller into the Hall is no reflection on the man who transformed the business of the sport and was perhaps the greatest union leader ever. It is instead a referendum on the judgment, indeed the sanity, of those casting the ballots. 

Choose carefully, gentlemen.