Union executive Marvin Miller elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

Marvin Miller, who headed the Major League Baseball Players Association from 1966-82 and revolutionized labor relations in American professional sports, was elected yesterday to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.

Former MLB Commissioner Fay Vincent said upon learning of his death in 2012 that Miller is “the most important baseball figure of the last 50 years. He changed not just the sport but the business of the sport permanently, and he truly emancipated the baseball player – and in the process, all professional athletes.”

Read about his election to the Hall of Fame here. The NYLHA penned a resolution in October supporting the Brooklynite’s election to the Hall.