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Sunday, July 27, 2008

O’Malley and Kuhn Enter Hall, Forever Linked by Bold Moves (NY Times)

From The New York Times:

By RICHARD SANDOMIR
Published: July 27, 2008

"...O’Malley was the consummate politician who exploited his sport’s manifest destiny, whether as a visionary or a business opportunist. But the patrician Kuhn often seemed buffeted and besieged by the gales of change, like the toppling of the reserve clause and free agency, which he said he thought would destroy baseball, and the angry labor wars in which he was outmaneuvered by Marvin Miller, who led the players union...."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/sports/baseball/27hall.html?_r=1&ref=sports&oref=slogin

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