Marvin Miller

July, 1973

Although Marvin Miller grew up in Brooklyn almost in the shadow of Ebbets Field, home of the old Dodgers, the executive director of the Baseball Players Association is not a man nostalgic for the old order. Like other areas deserted by their franchises, Brooklyn lost the Dodgers. After all, says Miller, "The owners are in baseball to make a profit." But indifference to fan loyalty, as Miller sees it, is only one symptom of the malaise that afflicts baseball. "The players of today...