Bowie Kuhn

Kuhn was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008 after having been elected by the Veterans Committee nine months after his death. 5 million Kuhn blocked the deals on the grounds that they would be bad for the game. In 1980 during the Iranian hostage crisis Kuhn sat at a baseball game with Jeremiah Denton a Navy admiral and former POW in Vietnam who would be elected U.

He served as legal counsel for Major League Baseball owners for almost 20 years prior to his election as commissioner.