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- Title
Union Busting at the Baseball Hall of Fame: The Blacklisting of Union Leader Marvin Miller.
- Authors
Dreier, Peter
- Abstract
From the time he retired in 1982 as executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) until 2019, the baseball establishment blacklisted Marvin Miller from the Baseball Hall of Fame. This article recounts how Miller, one of the most influential figures in baseball history, was excluded for so many years by the corporate‐backed plutocracy that runs the sport. The Hall of Fame's board of directors stacked the committees responsible for voting on candidates with owners and executives who despised Miller and the players union. It also reveals how and why he was eventually inducted in 2021.
- Subjects
NATIONAL Baseball Hall of Fame &; Museum; MAJOR League Baseball (Organization); HALLS of fame; BASEBALL; BASEBALL players; BOARDS of directors; HISTORY of sports; TELEVISED sports
- Publication
Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, 2024, Vol 21, Issue 2, p94
- ISSN
1547-6715
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1215/15476715-11018473