Sunday, December 01, 2013
Leave Marvin Miller alone
?Chass continues to do excellent work in exposing Miller's wishes. He has a lengthy email from Miller's son, who also quotes Marvin. Here's the end of that:
“Our course of action couldn’t be clearer. I’m sure there will be those who want to ‘do the right thing’ out of guilt, or because of some newly discovered perception of historical accuracy. But nobody needs the HOF to understand my father’s place in baseball and labor history. The historical record is widely available on the Web and in the Marvin Miller archive at NYU. His portrait is at the Supreme Court in Washington DC, which is more accessible than Cooperstown.
“I sincerely wish the HOF well in its efforts to improve its integrity, but must respectfully decline, for the reasons stated above, to participate in any of its activities, and ask again, as my father did during his lifetime, that they leave his name off their ballot.”
No one should rescue the Hall of Fame from their shame. Let it stand there tomorrow as it was yesterday.
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