Former Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley, ex-Pirates owner Barney Dreyfuss and managers Dick Williams and Billy Southworth were also elected. Williams, who made his debut with the "Impossible Dream" Red Sox in 1967 and went on to manage five other teams in a 21-year career, is the only living inductee.

O'Malley moved the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles after the 1957 season — a baseball version of the California Gold Rush that helped open the West to the national pastime.

Dreyfuss changed baseball when he and Boston owner Henry Killilea agreed in 1903 to meet on the diamond to settle the longtime feud between the American and National Leagues.

The World Series was born.

The 90-year-old Miller received only three votes from the 12-member Veterans Committee; he needed nine for induction.

The revolutionary executive director of the players association missed election by 10 votes earlier this year by a committee that included all living members of the Hall.

That panel was revamped after failing to elect anyone in three tries and replaced by one with a majority from baseball management — the same group Miller once fought for lucrative player benefits like free agency and salary arbitration.

"I think it was rigged, but not to keep me out. It was rigged to bring some of these in," Miller said by telephone after being informed of the results by The Associated Press. "It's not a pretty picture."

"It's demeaning, the whole thing, and I don't mean just to me. It's demeaning to the Hall and demeaning to the people in it," he said.

In the vote earlier this year, O'Malley was supported by 44 percent and Kuhn 17 percent, while Miller received 63 percent. Among managers, Williams got 37 percent.

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