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Marvin Julian Miller (April 14, 1917 – November 27, 2012) was an American labor union leader and baseball executive who served as the first executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) from 1966 to 1982.
[8] [9] [10] John Smoltz, Jim Thome, Michael Young, Curtis Granderson, and Marcus Semien are the only players to win the Marvin Miller Man of the Year Award on multiple occasions. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Five winners – Paul Molitor , Jim Thome , Smoltz, Chipper Jones and Mariano Rivera – are members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame .
In 1998, a second non-dual award was added, Player of the Year. In addition, the Man of the Year award was renamed in honor of Marvin Miller, former executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association. In 1999, a special Player of the Decade award was given. In 2015, a third non-dual award was created.
Miller became executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association in 1966. A year later, the St. Louis Cardinals drafted a catcher named Simmons out of Michigan, 10th overall. Both ...
Tommy John, Marvin Miller and Ted Simmons are among the big names up for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Today’s guest columnist is Tony Clark, executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association. In the mid-1990s, I got my first taste of Major League Baseball on, and off, the field.
Marvin Eugene Throneberry (September 2, 1933 – June 23, 1994) was an American Major League Baseball player. Affectionately known as "Marvelous Marv", he was the starting first baseman for the 1962 New York Mets, a team which set the modern record for most losses in a season with 120 until that record was broken by the Chicago White Sox with 121 in 2024.
They agreed on Marvin Miller, then an economist with the United Steelworkers. [24] They convinced the players union to hire Miller, and he remained in the position until 1983. [ 24 ] Under Miller's direction, in 1968 the MLBPA negotiated its first collective bargaining agreement with the owners, which put the players on the path to improved ...