Supreme Court Sluggers October Term 2010

Out at home in 1925: Future member of the Supreme Court bar (admitted May 27, 1929) Herold D. “Muddy” Ruel of the Washington Senators tags Edmund J. “Bing” Miller of the Philadelphia Athletics. The Senators went on to lose the in seven games to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1925. Ruel continued to play in the until 1934, and then spent most of the 1930s and ’40s coaching with the . Term=yr. starting 1st Mon. in Oct.; Marvin Miller The Numbers Arthur J. Goldberg TO=MO+PO+CO+DO+OO+IC; Executive Director of the Major Avg. MLB Percent Assoc. Justice of the Supreme Court MO=majority opinions; UO=MOs League Players Association Season Player Sal. Change born Aug. 8, 1908, Chicago, IL w/no other opinions; PO=plural- 1964 born Apr. 14, 1917, New York, NY $14,863 -- died Jan. 19, 1990, Wash., DC ity opinions; CO=concurrences; 1965 14,341 -3.5 DO=dissents; PC=per curiams NYU BS 1938 appointed from IL ¹1966 17,664 +23.2 joined; JN=non-PCs joined when Gov. svc.: 1939-45 Northwestern LLB 1928; JD 1929 1967 19,000 +7.6 not writing (max. 1/case); OO= Union svc.: 1945-present Gov. svc.: 1942-43, 61-68, 77-78 1968 20, 632 +8.6 opinions relating to orders; IC=in- elected MLBPA Exec. Dir. 1966; Priv. prac.: 1929-42, 43-61, 68-90 1969 24,909 +20.7 chambers opinions; CN=cites by retired 1983 S. Ct. svc.: Oct. 1, 1962-Jul. 26, 1965 1970 29,303 +17.6 name in West’s ‘Federal’ reporters 1971 31,543 +7.6 1972 34,092 +8.1 serial no. The Words 1973 36,566 +7.3 The Numbers (as of April 10, 2011) Hank Aaron: “Marvin Miller should be in the Hall of 1974 40,839 +11.7 Court Term TO MO UO PO CO DO PC JN OO IC CN Fame if the players have to break down the doors to get 1975 44,676 +9.4 S. Ct. 1962 25 12 2 0 6 5 44 80 0 2 8 him in.” 1976 52,300 +17.1 S. Ct. 1963 40 14 5 1 10 12 64 75 3 0 24 Sandy Sr., Sandy Jr. & Roberto Alomar: “We can only say 1977 74,000 +41.5 ¹S. Ct. 1964 34 10 2 1 12 9 39 56 1 1 37 thank you, Marvin, and still that is not enough.” 1978 97,800 +32.2 Tot. 99 36 9 2 28 26 147 211 4 3 69 1979 121,900 +24.6 Avg. 33 12 3 1 9 9 49 70 1 1 23 Arthur Ashe: “Marvin Miller has done more for the 1980 146,500 +20.2 welfare of black athletes than anyone else.” The back-up for these numbers is at www.greenbag.org. Please send 1981 196,500 +34.1 , EH.Net Encyclopedia, Dec. 3, 2007. Muddy Ruel photo corrections and suggestions to [email protected]. Red Barber: “Marvin Miller, along with Babe Ruth and 1982 245,000 +24.7 Jackie Robinson, is one of the two or three most 1983 289,000 +18.0 ¹This is a partial Term. important men in baseball history.” ¹Year of Miller’s election. The Words (OT 1963) Bill James: “If baseball ever buys itself a mountain and “Is the taking of human life to protect a value other than human life starts carving faces in it, one of the first men to go up is Words at left are from Allen consistent with the constitutional proscription against ‘punishments sure to be Marvin Miller.” Barra, Hall of Shame, Village /2000 which by their excessive . . . severity are greatly disproportioned to the Voice, Nov. 27, 2007, and from Library of Congress, Prints & Photo. Div., repro. no. LC-USZ62-135437. repro. Prints & Photo. Div., Library of Congress, from Studs Terkel: “Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most the GMU School of Law. Bag, Inc. Made with support from The Green © 2011 Court numbers by Adam Aft and Portraits by John A. Sargent III . Supreme Michael Haupert, The Economic History of Craig Rust . Salary numbers from offenses charged?’” Rudolph v. Alabama effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.” thanksmarvin.com.