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Originally Posted by George
In March of 2009, a total of 17 veterans of the Negro Leagues were elected to the Hall of Fame. Buck O'Neil and Minnie Minoso were not among them. This prompted the irascible Keith Olbermann to have a hissy fit, blaming this omission on SABR, and threatening to resign from SABR if they did not take action to reverse the vote and admit O'Neil and Minoso to the Hall, even though SABR had no direct role in selecting members for the Hall of Fame. Olbermann somehow held SABR accountable, in a vitriolic attack, because most of the voters on the selection committee did happen to be members of SABR. SABR, to their credit, took no action to acquiesce to Olbermann's demands. Olbermann should have lived up to his promise and resigned. To the surprise of no one, he has not resigned, and, as far as I know, he has not even made an apology to SABR for his vicious and unfounded remarks.
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Not that I agree with the way he went about his response about the omission
BUT it was absolutely unbelievable that O'Neil and, to a lesser extent, Minoso were not among the ones chosen but Effa Manley was--totally unforgivable in my opinion!