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Old 11-27-2012, 11:31 AM
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Marvin Miller, the man who changed the face of baseball dies. He was never voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Marvin Miller, the first executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, dead at 95 after year-long battle with cancer - NY Daily News

RIP - Marvin
Ushering in the era of "free agency" in baseball certainly changed the game. I will have to let history decide if it changed for the better or worse. Certainly allowing players to seek compensation in a free market was a good thing. Allowing the richest teams to get the best players probably resulted in much higher ticket prices, less competition, etc.