For desired Baseball Awards result, follow the leader's example: Select the right voters.

Re Baseball Hall of Fame Veterans Committee, 8/25/08: "A revamped committee met in December (2007) and considered managers and executives. It voted in former

• commissioner

Bowie Kuhn, former Dodgers

• owner

Walter O'Malley,

• managers

Dick Williams and Billy Southworth and ex-Pittsburgh

• owner

Barney Dreyfuss while

• bypassing former players' association head Marvin Miller.

The format of the Veterans Committee had been changed twice since 2001, when

• charges of cronyism accompanied the election of Bill Mazeroski.

The 15-member panel was expanded to include every living member of the Hall,

• but that group failed to elect anyone in three tries.

The Hall then changed to the current format of separate panels."...

• ie, WHERE CRONYISM REIGNS SUPREME AND WITHOUT FEAR THAT ANYONE WILL COME ALONG AND 'RE-FORMAT' THEM.

• One other terrifying thing happened in the latest result before the recent 'format' change.

Marvin Miller leapt to 63% up from 44%, getting 51 of the required 81 votes. A new panel was selected by "baseball" virtually guaranteeing Marvin Miller would never be elected to the Hall of Fame. As in other walks of life, "results" are decided when voters/judges are named. No need to await actual votes. This is the example set for BBWAA voters.

• Mr. Miller appeared on Dibble and Kennedy's XM show 5/23/08 and I posted from that interview:

'The previous 80-member Veterans Committee wasn't anxious to open Hall of Fame doors to newcomers but gave Marvin Miller a 63% approval on its most recent vote prior to 2007. Miller said to his knowledge, no one has ever gotten to this amount and not received at least 75% on his next vote (guaranteeing entrance to the Hall). Miller had long ago been told by an MLB big wig he'd see to it he'd never get in the Hall. That was accomplished by:

• Reducing the number of voters from 80 to 12, and

• Selecting the correct voters for a desired result.

Miller said, which should be obvious, the panel of electors was rigged to achieve a certain result (not saying it specifically involved him, but perhaps to insure someone else would gain entrance).

• That the 80 member Veterans Committee was simply abolished and stacked with only 12 voters, most guaranteed to vote a certain way, Miller comments:

You wouldn't even expect to see this kind of thing from a 2-bit dictator in a Banana Republic.

• 3 selected to judge Miller were collusionists who had been found guilty.'

I reposted this about Marvin Miller because of an AP story referencing another Veterans Committee report (noted at top of this post).

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