MLB Hall of Fame announces non-player candidates Nov 11, 2009
Executives on the other ballot include Gene Autry, Sam Breadon, John Fetzer, Bob Howsam, Ewing Kauffman, John McHale, Marvin Miller, Gabe Paul, Jacob Ruppert and Bill White. Share: Text. (News & Observer -- Sports)
2 Yankees earn Gold Gloves Nov 11, 2009
A separate ballot for executives and pioneers includes former owners Gene Autry (Angels) and Jacob Ruppert (Yankees), along with former players' association head Marvin Miller. This article appeared on page B - 2 of the San Francisco Chronicle. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)
Martin, Herzog, Murtaugh and Mauch on Hall ballot Nov 11, 2009
A separate ballot for executives and pioneers includes former owners Gene Autry (Angels), Ewing Kauffman (Royals), John Fetzer (Tigers), Jacob Ruppert (Yankees) and Sam Breadon (Cardinals) along with former players' association head Marvin Miller. Voting results will be released Dec. 7. (News & Observer -- Sports)
Granderson Earns Marvin Miller Man Of The Year Award Oct 31, 2009
(Sports Network) - Detroit Tigers outfielder Curtis Granderson was named the recipient of the 2009 Marvin Miller Man of the Year award. The award is named for the founding executive director of the MLB Players Association and is bestowed upon the player "whose on-field and off-field performance most inspires others to higher levels of achievement by displaying as much passion to give back to others as he shows between the lines on the baseball diamond." Granderson created the Grand Kids... (ABC 7 News, DC)
Granderson named Miller Award winner Oct 31, 2009
Members of the MLB Players Association voted Detroit center fielder Curtis Granderson as this year's winner of the Marvin Miller Man of the Year Award for on- and off-field performance. The award, as voted on by Major League players in September, goes annually to the player whose passion to give back to the community inspires others. (MLB.com -- Detroit Tigers)
Pujols given top honor by his peers Oct 31, 2009
Granderson is the winner of the prestigious Marvin Miller Man of the Year Award for his work on and off the field ... Pujols' long list of Players Choice Awards include Player of the Year and NL Outstanding Player in 2003, 2008 and 2009, Marvin Miller Man of the Year in 2006 and NL Outstanding Rookie in 2001 ... The Player of the Year and Marvin Miller Man of the Year awards are awarded to one player. (MLB.com -- St. Louis Cardinals)
Mauer, Pujols get Outstanding Players nod Oct 30, 2009
He's also been touted as the Marvin Miller Man of the Year in '06 and the NL Outstanding Rookie in '01 ... The Player of the Year and Marvin Miller Man of the Year awards are top prizes, given to just one player, regardless of league. (MLB.com -- St. Louis Cardinals)
Peers vote Hill AL Comeback Player of Year Oct 28, 2009
The Player of the Year and Marvin Miller Man of the Year awards bestow top honors without regard to league. Balloting of all Major League players for the Players Choice Awards was conducted in September. (MLB.com -- Toronto Blue Jays)
Award allows Beckham to give back Oct 27, 2009
The Player of the Year and Marvin Miller Man of the Year awards recognize top honors without regard to league. Beckham beat out Texas infielder Elvis Andrus and Tampa Bay starter Jeff Niemann, with Detroit hurler Rick Porcello surprisingly not in the final three. (MLB.com -- Chi White Sox White Sox)
Officials rethink roadway makeover Oct 22, 2009
"It ain't broken," said Marvin Miller of the current traffic pattern. "It's not necessary.". (Daytona Beach News Journal -- Local)
MLBPA memo: Fehr to get $11 million package Oct 21, 2009
When former executive director Marvin Miller stepped down and Fehr took over in December 1983, Miller acted as an unofficial confidant and advisor to Fehr. The situation now is different, of course. (ESPN -- Baseball)
Angels' Hunter wins Branch Rickey Award Sep 11, 2009
Awards are not new for Hunter, who was chosen the 2007 Marvin Miller Man of the Year, which goes annually to a player whose on-field and off-field acts inspire others. In December, during baseball's Winter Meetings in Las Vegas, Hunter announced a partnership with the Heart of a Champion Foundation to create the Torii Hunter Project Educational Initiative to provide college scholarships and character development for students in Anaheim, Calif. (MLB.com -- Anaheim Angels)
Q's with A's: Clayton Mortensen Sep 11, 2009
The Official Site of the Oakland Athletics. Rookie starter on getting traded, shelled and better. (MLB.com -- Oakland Athletics)
Fans can make final push for Braden Sep 10, 2009
A's lefty up for the Marvin Miller Man of the Year Award ... Braden was named by his teammates as Oakland's nominee for the MLB Players Association's 2009 Marvin Miller Man of the Year Award ... A's lefty up for the Marvin Miller Man of the Year Award. (MLB.com -- Oakland Athletics)
Clemente Award nod an honor for Young Sep 3, 2009
" Michael and Cristina continue to involve themselves in a wide-range of charitable organizations that serve the North Texas community. They have been actively involved with "Wipe Out Kids' Cancer" since the 2002 season. Wipe Out Kids' Cancer is a non-profit organization whose mission is to wipe out kids' cancer through innovative research, education and treatment, while providing hope to children affected with cancer. They have hosted the Wipe Out Kids' Ambassadors to a Texas Rangers home game,... (MLB.com -- Texas Rangers)
Selig celebrates landmark 75th birthday Jul 31, 2009
"Attendance this season is down 5 percent, but if you take into account the reduced capacities of the two new ballparks in New York, it's actually down only 3.8, 3.9 percent, which is amazing given the economy. I've had more people in the business world say to me, 'You ought to announce that. What a dramatic story that is.' You're talking about other businesses that are off 30 percent to 40 percent. This may be our greatest year ever given the environment." As for the drug policy, Selig said:... (MLB.com -- Milwaukee Brewers)
Stimulus money saves Volusia school jobs Jul 29, 2009
Marvin Miller, an Ormond Beach Realtor who called on the School Board to do more to cut costs, was the only citizen to speak about the budget Tuesday. Among his suggestions were assigning teachers to drive buses before and after classes and cutting pay for all non-teaching district employees who make more than $30,000 a year. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Volusia School Board proposes 'prudent' budget Jul 24, 2009
But Marvin Miller, who protested the School Board's decision last month to add the "critical needs" tax to this year's levy, said Thursday it's not austere enough. "The problem is everybody is adding on, every city, hospital and the county is adding on to the tax bill," said Miller, an Ormond Beach Realtor and member of Volusia Tax Reform. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Fehr and loathing: Examining pro sports union heads Jul 1, 2009
If you don t defend the players vigorously enough, Marvin Miller sticks pins in your voodoo doll, and you probably don t even have to be representing baseball players ... That s when the players hired a tough-minded economist named Marvin Miller away from the United Steelworkers of America to represent them ... Marvin Miller was, and is, an ideologue. (Boston Globe)
KEITH:What ex-union boss Marvin Miller thinks about Don Fehr Jun 24, 2009
As union chief Donald Fehr steps down, Marvin Miller speaks - Ted Keith - SI.com ... Marvin Miller was the original executive director of the MLBPA (1966-82) ... At 92 years old, Marvin Miller still has strong feelings on baseball's labor issues. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- MLB)
School Board OKs tax hike for Volusia Jun 24, 2009
"I'm up to my neck in taxes," said Marvin Miller of Ormond Beach, who suggested the board cut expenses instead of raising taxes. "You're putting us out of business.". (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Fehr is ready to step down Jun 23, 2009
That s when Fehr got to know Marvin Miller, the pioneering union head who Fehr would eventually replace after a brief tenure by Kenneth Moffett, who was fired by the players. Fehr, who had been a general counsel since 1977, came aboard as acting executive director Dec. 8, 1983 and never left. (Boston Globe)
Fehr era draws to close Jun 23, 2009
As part of the succession plan, Weiner met Monday with Fehr and the 92-year-old Marvin Miller, Fehr's predecessor. "I think that he's a bright guy," Miller said in a telephone interview. (News & Observer -- Sports)
Donald Fehr: Timing right to step down as MLB union head Jun 23, 2009
"Don Fehr took the baton from Marvin Miller and everyone that wears a (big-league) uniform today has benefited," said former pitcher Bert Blyleven, a broadcaster with the Minnesota Twins. Fehr, a casual man who once said that 99% of the time he talked about subjects other than baseball, was working in a Kansas City law firm when he was hired by Miller, the pioneering union boss, to work on a case involving Andy Messersmith that eventually led to an arbitrator striking down the reserve clause. (USA Today -- Sports)
Cancer patient is Young's special guest Mar 20, 2009
His dedicated work with Wipe Out Kids Cancer is one reason why he was named the Marvin Miller Man of the Year Award in the offseason. "My wife and I got involved years ago," Young said. (MLB.com -- Texas Rangers)
NU High heading back to state Mar 4, 2009
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Mets Inbox: Why hand Murphy job now? Feb 25, 2009
I'm not sure that the circumstances you cite point to the system being "messed up" or illustrate what a genius Marvin Miller was when he had arbitration negotiated into the collective bargaining agreement and then won free agency rights for players. Either way, Maine will get his chance. (MLB.com -- NY Mets Mets)
Halos' Torii rallying troops for movement Feb 19, 2009
Hunter, voted the 2007 Marvin Miller Man of the Year by the MLB Players Association for his inspirational work, knows how to get things done. He is centrally involved in another mission focused on educating young people, steering them along productive paths, away from trouble. (MLB.com -- Anaheim Angels)
LOPRESTI COLUMN: No scorecard for A-Rod performance Feb 18, 2009
That is what union legend Marvin Miller misses, when he reduces the issue to a labor-management conflict and fight for worker rights, as if we were talking about overtime pay. It is what the steroid ripples have done to the ability to look at a game and understand what can be believed and what cannot and how to tell one from the other. (USA Today -- Sports)
The Ridiculous Adulation of NBA Commish David Stern Feb 16, 2009
Marvin Miller suggests now that the cooperation had more to do with the specific personalities involved. O'Brien, he recalls, "would seek me out and talk to me about labor-management problems. He was always very knowledgeable, always cooperative. It was never on a hostile basis. ... Stern was cut from a different cloth.". (Slate)
A-Rod is talk of MLB after admission Feb 11, 2009
Meanwhile, Marvin Miller, the founder of the Major League Baseball Players Association, called the treatment of Rodriguez and other players a "witch hunt" by the federal government and drug-testing organizations in a story on ESPN.com. "Everything I've read in the last few days is unfair and anti-union, but that does not mean I agree that (union members) are without blame," Miller told ESPN.com. (MLB.com -- NY Yankees Yankees)
Agents have dirty hands, too Feb 11, 2009
Under the leadership of Marvin Miller and Donald Fehr, the players' association has been free of the financial shenanigans, internal squabbles and ineffective bargaining of every other players' union. Fehr is unapologetically single-minded in defence of every tiny inch of turf, as he should be. (Globe and Mail -- Sports)
Not just A-Rod? Court may release other names Feb 11, 2009
Former union head Marvin Miller called for an investigation of federal prosecutors to help determine whether there was a government leak of the test results, which remain under court seal. I think the first question ought to be: 104 names all testing positive, but you leak only A-Rods. (MSNBC -- Sports)
Tejada faces charges Feb 11, 2009
Meanwhile, former union head Marvin Miller called for an investigation of federal prosecutors to help determine whether there was a government leak of the test results, which remain under court seal. JETER MUM ON A-ROD: Derek Jeter watched Alex Rodriguez's confession on TV but says he plans to put off discussing it publicly until the entire media contingent that covers the New York Yankees arrives for spring training. (News & Observer -- Sports)
