It isn't that Marvin Miller was robbed, but that the jury was rigged.

• Commenter notes Baseball Hall of Fame has tax exempt status via an educational mission. The group's treatment of Marvin Miller casts doubt on that mission:

From commenter at Baseball Think Factory on Tom Seaver's article saying "Marvin Miller Got Robbed (again):"

• 4. Bob Tufts Posted: December 07, 2009 at 11:55 AM (#3405635)

Has the Hall of Fame now slipped into total irrelevance? It has not for profit status due to its educational mission. In ignoring Miller for induction, the committee members appointed by the HOF have neglected the mission, so maybe they should have the tax free claim challenged?

• Since the HOF appears to be run by owners for owners, perhaps a one year boycott

• by former players of the HOF weekend would be appropriate in honor of Marvin?"
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• 4/24/08: (Donald) Fehr said changes in the format of the Hall of Fame Veterans Committee made it a
• "foregone conclusion that Marvin Miller would never be elected."

Miller, the former union leader whose strategies helped create free agency and multimillion-dollar salaries, received 51 of 81 (63 percent) in early 2007, falling 10 votes shy of the needed 75 percent.

• Miller got just three of 12 votes in December. "It makes me sort of very sad," Fehr said."

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