Allen Joseph obit

Allen JOSEPH Obituary

 He was not on the list.

JOSEPH, Allen Louis May 29, 1919-Nov. 30, 2012 Minneapolis, MN - Mission Viejo, CA Allen Louis Joseph was a dear cousin, warm and witty friend, talented actor and playwright, and a very devoted husband. The secret to his 60 year loving marriage to Teresa was humor, he said, which he demonstrated daily. When she developed Altzheimers, his constant caretaking reflected his deep love for her. In his professional career, Mr. Joseph had the pleasure to act with Robert DeNiro in "Raging Bull", Dustin Hoffman in "Marathon Man", and in 40 other movies and TV shows. Mr. Joseph's original plays were produced in New York City, Washington, DC, and Los Aneles, CA. His greatest gift was his sharp wit and natural ability to make people laugh, and think. He was a small statured man with a huge capacity for life! Mr. Joseph is survived by cousins Alice Botte Kufel, Antonia Botte Jirovsky, Theodore Barbone, John Barbone, Anita Barbone, and numerous children and grandchildren. Burial is scheduled for Monday, Dec. 10, 2012 at 11 a.m., at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Mortuary, 1218 Glendon Ave, Los Angeles, CA.

Actor

Ernest Borgnine, Jan-Michael Vincent, and Alex Cord in Airwolf (1984)

Airwolf

6.7

TV Series

Mechanic #2

1985

1 episode

 

Hey Good Lookin' (1982)

Hey Good Lookin'

6.2

Max (voice)

1982

 

Jack Klugman in Quincy, M.E. (1976)

Quincy, M.E.

7.3

TV Series

Jake Mavenda

Jonah

1980–1982

2 episodes

 

Saturday the 14th (1981)

Saturday the 14th

4.6

Uncle Bert

1981

 

Robert De Niro in Raging Bull (1980)

Raging Bull

8.1

Jeweler (as Allan Joseph)

1980

 

House Calls (1979)

House Calls

6.5

TV Series

1980

1 episode

 

Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979)

Chilly Scenes of Winter

7.0

Blindman

1979

 

Robert Forster, David Birney, and Richard E. Kalk in Police Story (1973)

Police Story

7.5

TV Series

Clive

Miles

1976–1979

2 episodes

 

Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)

Eyes of Laura Mars

6.2

Policeman (as Al Joseph)

1978

 

Patrick Duffy in Man from Atlantis (1977)

Man from Atlantis

6.5

TV Series

Proprietor

1978

1 episode

 

Kevin Brophy in Lucan (1977)

Lucan

7.2

TV Series

Jeweler

1978

1 episode

 

John Hus (1977)

John Hus

7.0

1977

 

Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner in Switch (1975)

Switch

7.1

TV Series

Lou Reardon

1977

1 episode

 

Starsky and Hutch (1975)

Starsky and Hutch

7.0

TV Series

Murph

1977

1 episode

 

Telly Savalas in Kojak (1973)

Kojak

7.1

TV Series

Night Man

Mr. King

1974–1977

2 episodes

 

Black Market Baby (1977)

Black Market Baby

5.8

TV Movie

Albert Macarino

1977

 

Jack Nance in Eraserhead (1977)

Eraserhead

7.3

Mr. X

1977

 

Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man (1976)

Marathon Man

7.4

Babe's Father

1976

 

Robert Blake in Baretta (1975)

Baretta

6.7

TV Series

Silverstein

1976

1 episode

 

Jack Warden in Jigsaw John (1976)

Jigsaw John

6.8

TV Series

Hearst (as Allan Joseph)

1976

1 episode

 

Jack Palance in Bronk (1975)

Bronk

6.7

TV Series

Manager

1975

1 episode

 

Panic on the 5:22 (1974)

Panic on the 5:22

5.0

TV Movie

Hasidic Jew

1974

 

There Is No 13 (1974)

There Is No 13

6.7

Cowboy (as Al Joseph)

1974

 

Mike Connors in Mannix (1967)

Mannix

7.4

TV Series

Louie

Alfie

Dr. Jenkins ...

1968–1974

6 episodes

 

Lee Majors in The Six Million Dollar Man (1973)

The Six Million Dollar Man

7.1

TV Series

Dorsey

1974

1 episode

 

Bill Bixby in The Magician (1973)

The Magician

7.5

TV Series

Ticket Seller

1973

1 episode

 

Raymond Burr and Barbara Sigel in Ironside (1967)

Ironside

6.9

TV Series

Paolo Amati

Harry Goodson

1969–1973

2 episodes

 

Eve Plumb, Florence Henderson, Susan Olsen, Robert Reed, Ann B. Davis, Christopher Knight, Mike Lookinland, Maureen McCormick, and Barry Williams in The Brady Bunch (1969)

The Brady Bunch

6.8

TV Series

Minister

1973

1 episode

 

Cool Million (1972)

Cool Million

7.2

TV Series

Prisoner

Man in Club

1972

2 episodes

 

Pete Duel and Ben Murphy in Alias Smith and Jones (1971)

Alias Smith and Jones

7.6

TV Series

Ticket Agent

Old Man

1971–1972

2 episodes

 

Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Peter Graves, Peter Lupus, and Greg Morris in Mission: Impossible (1966)

Mission: Impossible

7.9

TV Series

Willard

Bartender

Max Wittstock ...

1966–1972

6 episodes

 

The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1969)

The Courtship of Eddie's Father

7.3

TV Series

Mr. Wertz

1971

1 episode

 

The Return of Count Yorga (1971)

The Return of Count Yorga

5.6

Michael Farmer - Winner of Costume Party

1971

 

Don Adams and Barbara Feldon in Get Smart (1965)

Get Smart

8.2

TV Series

Windy Vasquez

1970

1 episode

 

The Wonderful Land of Oz (1969)

The Wonderful Land of Oz

2.1

The Tin-Woodman (as Al Joseph)

1969

 

Darren McGavin in The Outsider (1968)

The Outsider

7.9

TV Series

Fred

1968

1 episode

 

It Takes a Thief (1968)

It Takes a Thief

7.5

TV Series

Clerk

1968

1 episode

 

The Invaders (1967)

The Invaders

8.0

TV Series

Jury Member

1968

1 episode

 

Garrison's Gorillas (1967)

Garrison's Gorillas

7.7

TV Series

Attendant

1968

1 episode

 

The Search for the Evil One (1967)

The Search for the Evil One

5.0

1967

 

David Janssen in The Fugitive (1963)

The Fugitive

8.1

TV Series

Enforcer

1966

1 episode

 

Hot Skin, Cold Cash (1965)

Hot Skin, Cold Cash

4.8

Priest (as Al Joseph)

1965

 

Charles Boyer, Rock Hudson, and Leslie Caron in A Very Special Favor (1965)

A Very Special Favor

6.2

Therapy Group Member (uncredited)

1965

 

Raymond Burr in Perry Mason (1957)

Perry Mason

8.3

TV Series

Prosecutor

Senator Cord

1962–1964

2 episodes

 

John McIntire in Wagon Train (1957)

Wagon Train

7.5

TV Series

Benny

Sanders

Archie

1962–1963

3 episodes

 

Alfred Hitchcock in The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962)

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

8.5

TV Series

Dr. Norman Abrams

1963

1 episode

 

Nick Adams in Saints and Sinners (1962)

Saints and Sinners

5.6

TV Series

Dr. Fearnly

Barry

1962–1963

2 episodes

 

Violent Midnight (1963)

Violent Midnight

5.6

Barman

1963

 

Robert Reed and E.G. Marshall in The Defenders (1961)

The Defenders

7.9

TV Series

Stanley Gerber

1962

1 episode

 

Naked City (1958)

Naked City

8.2

TV Series

Lou Gerth

1961

1 episode

 

Startime (1959)

Startime

6.4

TV Series

Teller #3

1959

1 episode

 

That Wonderful Guy

7.8

TV Series

1950

1 episode

 

Archive Footage

Compression (1995)

Compression

TV Series

Self (archive footage)

2024

1 episode

 

Great Directors (2009)

Great Directors

6.4

Mr. X (clip from Eraserhead (1977)) (archive footage, uncredited)

2009

 

Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream (2005)

Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream

7.3

Self (archive footage)

2005

Merv Pregulman obit

 Gridiron Star Merv Pregulman has died

He was not on the list.

Professional Football Player. He attended Lansing Central High School in Lansing, Michigan and played collegiate football at the University of Michigan. While with the Wolverines, he distinguished himself as a versatile force on the gridiron whom was capable at playing the tackle, center and guard positions. He earned All-American and All-Big Ten Lineman status in 1943. Selected by the Green Bay Packers during the 1st-round of the 1944 NFL Draft, his professional initiation was delayed due to his service as a gunnery officer with the United States Navy during World War II. He joined the Packers in 1946 and would go onto the Detroit Lions and New York Bulldogs, totaling 47 regular season games in four seasons in the National Football League (1946 to 1949). Following his football career, he became a successful business executive in Chattanooga. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1982.

In 1944, Pregulman entered the United States Navy where he served as a gunnery officer on the USS Taluga in the Pacific Theater of Operations. The Taluga left Norfolk, Virginia in October 1944. On December 10, 1944, the ship reached Ulithi, an atoll in the Caroline Islands in the western Pacific Ocean, which served as the ship's base of operations until the end of World War II. For the next 11 months, Pregulman and the Taluga crew were in and out of Ulithi picking up oil and other supplies and delivering them to units of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. During that time, they supported carrier strikes and landings on Luzon in the Philippine Islands, landings on Okinawa, strikes on Formosa, and the final sweep of the Japanese home islands in the summer of 1945. Between April and July 1945, Pregulman and the Taluga crew spent much of their time in and around the anchorage at Kerama Retto, just west of the southern end of Okinawa. At dawn on April 16, 1945, ten kamikazes attacked their formation. One of the kamikazes dove at Taluga, strafed the deck, and then made for the superstructure. The attacker careened off the ship's bridge and hit the wheelhouse. However, only 12 men were injured, and the oiler was soon back in action. Pregulman normally would have been in the wheelhouse, but he went on deck just before the attack. He recalled: "If he had been five minutes later, I would have been in the wheelhouse and I certainly wouldn't be here". He recalled that the plane sheared off the top of the wheelhouse, and blew a hole in the deck, but no American soldiers were killed.

Just 11 days after the cessation of hostilities, Taluga entered Tokyo Bay on August 26, 1945, and took up duty as station oiler until early October. On November 18, 1945, the ship left Japan to support ships engaged in the occupation of China and Korea. The ship visited Tsingtao and Jinsen before returning to Yokosuka, Japan, on December 6, 1945. On January 31, 1946, the Taluga began its return to the United States, arriving in San Pedro, California, on February 16.

His biography at the University of Michigan Athletic History site says: "Originally a center he was shifted to guard, then back to center where his accurate passes were a vital factor in Michigan's famed single-winged attack. Smart and aggressive, he never turned in a performance below the high standard he set for himself."

Sportswriter Grantland Rice wrote that Pregulman was "fast and alert … was voted the best combination center, guard, and tackle the Middlewest had known in years."

In addition to his father, Pregulman said he had three heroes in his life: Michigan Coach Fritz Crisler, Michigan's line coach (and future Michigan State head coach) Biggie Munn, and Axle Martin, a university professor.

In 1969, Pregulman was selected for the Michigan Wolverines' all-time football team. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1982 and the University of Michigan Hall of Honor in 1988. He was also part of the second group inducted into the Michigan Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1986.

In 2005, Pregulman was selected as one of the 100 greatest Michigan football players of all time by the "Motown Sports Revival," ranking 61st on the all-time team.

Pregulman was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the first round (seventh choice overall) of the 1944 NFL Draft, but was called into military service in the Navy. After completing his military service, Pregulman finally signed with the Packers in June 1946. A Wisconsin sports writer touted the signing: "Curly Lambeau came up with a dandy for the Green Bay Packers when he landed Merv Pregulman. … At Michigan he was a star at three different positions -- tackle, guard and center. I've a hunch that he would do just as well at end." Pregulman appeared in nine games for a Packers' team that had a 6–5 record in 1946.

During the spring of 1947, Pregulman joined the coaching staff of the Michigan State Spartans football team when Biggie Munn took over as head coach. Munn had been Pregulman's position coach at Michigan.

In June 1947, Pregulman was traded by the Packers to the Detroit Lions in exchange for his former teammate at Michigan, Paul White. Pregulman played in all 24 games for the Lions during the 1947 and 1948 seasons. The Lions went 3–9 in 1947 and 2–10 in 1948. Pregulman had three interceptions and recovered three fumbles for the Lions. He also handled the Lions' kicking duties in 1948, kicking two field goals in six attempts, and completing 26 extra points in 27 attempts. He also had a punt return for nine yards (eight m) in 1947.

In August 1949, Pregulman was traded by the Lions to the New York Bulldogs in exchange for John Treadaway and John Prochlik. He played in all 12 games for the Bulldogs team that went 1–10–1.

In June 1950, Pregulman announced that he was retiring from football. He said he had received a contract to play for the Philadelphia Eagles, but had decided to remain in Lansing, Michigan, where he was in the furniture business.

Susan Luckey obit

Report: Actress Susan Luckey Dies at 74

She starred as a youngster in the famed movie musicals “Carousel” and “The Music Man.”

 She was not on the list.

Susan Luckey, who played young daughters in the classic movie musicals Carousel and The Music Man, died Nov. 29 at her home in Los Angeles, TMZ reported Wednesday. She was 74.

Luckey starred as Billy Bigelow’s (Gordon MacRae) kid in Carousel (1956) and as Zaneeta, Mayor Shinn’s (Paul Ford) daughter, in The Music Man (1962). In one memorable scene in Music Man, she kissed Timmy Everett while hanging upside down on a jungle gym.

Luckey’s last movie role was a small part in Step Out of Your Mind (1966).

She was married to actor Larry Douglas from 1964 until his death in 1996.

On Broadway in the 1950s, Luckey performed in the stage musicals Peter Pan and Take Me Along. She also appeared in the 1957 telefilm Annie Get Your Gun and the series The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show.

Luckey was born in Hollywood, California, where her father was a sound editor in the film industry. She graduated in 1956 from Hollywood Professional School. Luckey had a romance with race car driver Jack Martin while in her early teens

Survivors include her daughter Shayna.

 

Actress

Step Out of Your Mind

Lucia Brand

1966

 

Buddy Hackett, Paul Ford, Hermione Gingold, Shirley Jones, Pert Kelton, and Robert Preston in The Music Man (1962)

The Music Man

Zaneeta Shinn

1962

 

Annie Get Your Gun (1957)

Annie Get Your Gun

Winnie Tate

TV Movie

1957

 

Greer Garson and Florenz Ames in Telephone Time (1956)

Telephone Time

Laura Lockwood Madeleine de Vercheres

TV Series

1956–1957

2 episodes

 

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950)

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

Madeline Craig

TV Series

1956

2 episodes

 

Ginger Rogers, Warren Berlinger, Lili Gentle, Diane Jergens, Betty Lou Keim, Michael Rennie, and Rusty Swope in Teenage Rebel (1956)

Teenage Rebel

Madeleine Johnson (uncredited)

1956

 

The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1955)

The 20th Century-Fox Hour

Gretchen

TV Series

1956

1 episode

 

Carousel (1956)

Carousel

Louise Bigelow

1956

 

Producers' Showcase (1954)

Producers' Showcase

Indian (as Suzanne Luckey)

TV Series

1955

1 episode

 

Deep in My Heart (1954)

Deep in My Heart

Arabella Bell (uncredited)

1954

Zig Ziglar obit

Motivational speaker Zig Ziglar dies at 86

He was not on the list.

Motivational speaker Zig Ziglar has died after a battle with pneumonia, according to his Facebook page.

“Though his time on earth has ended, he is speaking with Jesus now in his heavenly home,” read a statement on the page. “The angels in heaven are rejoicing and his family is celebrating a life well lived.”

Ziglar's executive assistant Laurie Magers says Ziglar died Wednesday at a hospital in the Dallas suburb of Plano.

Ziglar’s speaking career had lasted more than 50 years, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, before he retired in 2010.

He was known for corporate training and motivational speeches that aimed to improve people's personal lives and careers. His company includes more than a dozen other speakers who advocate "The Ziglar Way."

Ziglar has written more than 29 sales and motivational books, including "See You at the Top" and "Over the Top," and has made appearances with U.S. presidents and world leaders, according to his website

James Hodgson obit

Hodgson, former Secretary of Labor, dies at Malibu home

He was not on the list.

James D. Hodgson, the former secretary of Labor under President Richard Nixon, died Nov. 28 at his home in Malibu due to complications from hip surgery, his family announced. He was 96.

As secretary Hodgson helped navigate the Occupational Safety and Health Act into law, according to the Los Angeles Times. He also served as director of industrial relations at Lockheed Aircraft Co., working there for nearly three decades. He was appointed by President Nixon as undersecretary of Labor in 1969 and then secretary of Labor in 1970. From 1974 to 1977, he served as ambassador to Japan under President Gerald Ford.

U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis issued a statement Monday after news of Hodgson’s death spread.

“Under his leadership, the Occupational Safety and Health Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Nixon. ‘Safety was extremely important in aircraft plants,’ the former Lockheed executive once said, ‘but as I went around looking at other industries, I was just appalled at the conditions I saw.’ Today, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration — the agency he envisioned and built – employs more than 2,200 people and strives to keep nearly 8 million U.S. workplaces safe and healthy through setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education and assistance."

James Day Hodgson was born Dec. 3, 1915, in Dawson, Minn., to a lumber dealer and his wife, according to the Times. In 1938 he earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota, then moved to California. He broke into the aerospace industry in 1941 with Lockheed as a personnel clerk at their Burbank office. In 1943 he married his wife Maria, whom he is survived by as well as two children.

Hodgson served three years in the Navy in the Pacific as a combat intelligence officer before returning to Lockheed, where he was “known as a man of integrity,” according to the Times.

Don Rhymer obit

Screenwriter Don Rhymer dies at 51

Credits include 'Big Momma's House,' animated 'Rio' 

He was not on the list.

Don Rhymer, a screenwriter behind animated films including “Rio” and feature comedies including the “Big Momma’s House” franchise and “The Santa Clause 2,” died of cancer in Los Angeles on Nov. 28. He was 51.

Rhymer penned Sony Pictures Animation’s “Surf’s Up” before contributing to Twentieth Century Fox Animation’s 2011 hit “Rio.” His final credit will come on the “Rio” sequel, penned with Carlos Saldanha and to be released in 2014.

Rhymer penned 2000 Martin Lawrence comedy vehicle “Big Momma’s House” with Darryl Quarles as well as 2006 sequel “Big Momma’s House 2” and received story credit on 2011’s “Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son.”

He was also one of the screenwriters on the 2005 feature adaptation of “The Honeymooners” that starred Cedric the Entertainer and the 2006 Christmas comedy “Deck the Halls” starring Danny DeVito and Matthew Broderick.

Rhymer started in television, penning episodes of the Valerie Harper sitcom “Valerie” in the late 1980s. He was co-producer of the brief animated series “Fish Police.” He subsequently wrote episodes of Burt Reynolds vehicle “Evening Shade” and “Hearts Afire,” both from Linda Bloodworth-Thomason.

“Big Momma’s House” was his first feature credit.

Rhymer was born in Union, S.C., and majored in English and communications at James Madison U. in Virginia.

He documented his long battle with cancer in the blog “Let’s Radiate Don.”

 

Filmography

Year     Name            Writer            Producer         Note

1989    McGee and Me!            Yes            No            1 episode as writer

1989    Coach            Yes            No            2 episodes as writer

1990    Bagdad Café     Yes            No      

1991-93            Evening Shade   Yes            No            8 episodes

1992    Fish Police   Yes            Yes            Co-producer (6 episodes)

1993    Banner Times   Yes            No            Television film

1993-94            Hearts Afire     Yes            Yes            Co-executive producer and writer (4 episodes)

1995    Past the Bleacher            Yes            Yes            Television film

1996            Carpool           Yes            No      

1997            Chicago Sons  Yes            No      

1997    Under Wraps  Yes            Yes            Television film, executive producer

1997    Fired Up       Yes            No            1 episode as writer

1998            Caroline in the City            Yes            No            1 episode as writer

2000    Big Momma's House  Yes            No      

2002    The Santa Clause 2            Yes            No      

2004    Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London            Yes            No      

2005    The Honeymooners            Yes            No

2006    Big Momma's House 2            Yes            No      

2006    Deck The Halls            Yes            No      

2007    Surf's Up       Yes            No      

2011    Big Mommas: Like Father Like Son      Yes            No      

2011    Rio            Yes            No      

2014    Rio 2            Yes            No            Posthumous release; dedicated to his memory

2017            Ferdinand        Yes            No            Posthumous release

Marvin Miller #32

Marvin Miller has died. He is number 32 on the list to pass away.

Marvin Miller's exclusion from the Hall of Fame was Major League Baseball community's most shameful snub

The Baseball Hall of Fame's rejection of 93-year-old Marvin Miller, a snub that had the owners' greedy fingerprints all over it, was petty at best, unconscionable at worst.

By any measure, Miller, the founder and longtime executive director of the players' association, was among the most significant figures in the game's history. Longtime Dodgers broadcaster Red Barber once suggested that only Babe Ruth and Jackie Robinson had a greater impact.

"If baseball ever buys itself a mountain and starts carving faces on it, one of the first men to go up is sure to be Marvin Miller," stats guru Bill James wrote in his introduction to Miller's book, A Whole Different Ball Game.


For all its pretentious reverence, the Hall is home to scoundrels of every stripe - racists, drunks, misanthropes, wife-beaters, gamblers, syphilitics - and more than a few whose baseball resumés don't warrant their inclusion.

Morgan Bulkeley, whose career in the game spanned two years as a team owner and one as National League president, is in the Hall. Miller is not.

Bowie Kuhn, a bumbling commissioner who was KO'd by Miller every time they shared the same ring, is in the Hall. Miller is not.

Phil Rizzuto, who had 1,588 hits, 38 homers, and 563 RBIs in a so-so 13-year career, is in the Hall. Miller is not.

Holy cow!

All Miller did was forever change the game - all of sports, really. Until he came along, baseball was a plantation. Players had no rights and no opportunity to change the status quo.

He looked at baseball, stripped away its sentimental veneer, and saw it for what it was: a moneymaking enterprise. He convinced the cowed players they had the same rights as any other American worker. And that included the right to organize.

It was Phillies Hall of Famer Robin Roberts who, with the aid of Penn professor George Taylor, found Miller and in 1966 gave the labor economist the job of molding the powerless players into a bargaining force.

That was quite a challenge. Historically, the owners had ruthlessly crushed any organizing effort. The average major-league salary in 1965 was $19,000. The minimum was $6,000, $900 below what a typical American family earned that year. The reserve clause, as odious a judicial construct as the Dred Scott decision, bound them to one team for perpetuity.

The nation's pastime was past time for a change.

Eventually, with the aid of stars such as Roberts and Jim Bunning, Miller persuaded the players of their worth. Through a decades-long series of negotiations, strikes, lockouts, and court actions, he transformed the 90-pound-weakling players' association into sports' heaviest hitter.

And what about all the whining and doomsaying that accompanied the union's rise?

Well, all those teams that swore they'd be forced out of business if players had to be paid anything close to what they deserved are still around. Even the worst of them are worth hundreds of millions.

Fans - many of whom took it on the chin economically precisely because they, too, had no clout - still carp about players' salaries yet continue to shell out big bucks for tickets and merchandise.

Despite rapidly rising prices, almost 808 million fans have paid to watch major-league baseball since 2000.

The Veterans Committee that rejected Miller, by the way, was made up of Hall of Fame manager Whitey Herzog; Hall of Fame players Johnny Bench, Eddie Murray, Jim Palmer, Tony Perez, Frank Robinson, Ryne Sandberg, and Ozzie Smith; White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf; Orioles president Andy MacPhail; former Phillies president Bill Giles; Royals owner David Glass; and writers Bob Elliott, Tim Kurkjian, Tom Verducci, and Ross Newhan.

You have to believe all four management representatives snubbed Miller. Reinsdorf, after all, headed the coup that ousted independent commissioner Faye Vincent and replaced him with fellow owner Bud Selig. His antipathy for Miller is well-known.

As for the seven players, all of whom were enriched by Miller's efforts, I can't imagine any would vote no. And I'm equally sure those four top-shelf writers fully understood the man's contributions.


But only 11 of the 16 voted for him, one shy of the necessary 12. If you assume the four management representatives rejected Miller, that still means either Herzog or one of the players or writers joined them.

So Bowie Kuhn - Sgt. Garcia to Miller's Zorro - made it to Cooperstown before Miller.

That's not only a mistake. It's an embarrassment