Fmr. New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, one vote short of unanimous.
Catcher Ted Simmons and Marvin Miller, the longtime executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, were elected to Cooperstown last month by the hall's, which assesses the cases of baseball figures overlooked in the main annual balloting.
Simmons was a highly admired switch-hitting catcher with 248 home runs and almost 2,500 hits in a 21-year career from 1968 to 1988, primarily with the St. Louis Cardinals, but also with the Milwaukee Brewers and the Atlanta Braves. Simmons' Cooperstown case had been hindered for years because he suffered from comparisons to Johnny Bench of the Cincinnati Reds, who played in the same era and is widely regarded asMiller, who died in 2012 at age 95, negotiated the sport's first collective bargaining agreement; won players' freedom from the reserve clause, which effectively tied them to their teams for life; and helped to usher in the era of free agency, which saw major league players' average salary rise from...
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