Gene Autry, Marvin Miller fail to win entry to Baseball Hall of Fame

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The late Gene Autry, who brought major league baseball to Orange County as the first owner of the Angels, and former union leader Marvin Miller failed to win election to the Baseball Hall of Fame in a vote by a 12-member veterans committee made up of media members and former players and executives.

Candidates needed to win support from nine of the 12 committee members to earn induction. Miller got seven votes; the Hall of Fame said Autry received fewer than three

Another veterans committee, voting on umpire and managerial candidates, elected former umpire Doug Harvey and former manager Whitey Herzog to the hall by comfortable margins, officials announced at a news conference on the opening day of the annual baseball winter meetings in Indianapolis.

Harvey, who umpired for 31 seasons in the major leagues, calling five World Series and six All-Star Games, was named on 15 of the 16 ballots while Herzog, who won a World Series and three pennants during 18 years as a manager with the Angels, Kansas City Royals, Texas Rangers and St. Louis Cardinals, was backed by 14 of the 16 voters.

Manager and umpire candidates had to win support from 12 of the 16 voters to win election. Among those who failed to reach that threshold were former Angels Manager Gene Mauch; Billy Martin, who won a World Series during 16 seasons with the Twins, Athletics, Yankees and Rangers; and former Pittsburgh Pirates skipper Danny Murtaugh, a two-time world champion manager

Martin and Mauch each received fewer than three votes, while Murtaugh got eight.

Harvey and Herzog will be inducted into the Hall of Fame during ceremonies at Cooperstown, N.Y, in July.

-- Kevin Baxter in Indianapolis