The revamped Veterans Committee of the National Baseball Hall of Fame aanoucned five new members that will be inducted in 2008. They are Managers Dick Williams and Billy Southworth and Executives and Pioneers Barney Dreyufuss, Bowie Kuhn, and Walter O'Malley. They wil join whomever is elected by the BBWA next month.

Dick Williams, the only living inductee, began managing the Red Sox in 1967,  and went on to manage the Angels, Padres and Mariners. His overall regular-season record was 1,548-1,418. He also had a 9-9 League Championship Series record and was 12-14 in the World Series.

Billy Southworth won two World Series titles with the Cardinals. Overall, Southworth, who also captured the 1948 pennant with the Boston Braves, compiled a brilliant resume in a 13-year managerial career. He finished with a 1044-704 record and fashioned a .597 winning percentage, fifth on the all-time list and third best among managers with 1,000 wins, trailing only Hall of Famers Joe McCarthy and Frank Selee.

Barney Dreyfuss became an innovator, a pioneer and an architect during a critical time period for professional baseball. His legacy would be left in the walls of the famous Forbes Field and his fingerprints would be over a Pirates franchise for decades to come.

Walter O'Malley shifted the Major League landscape in the late 50s by moving the Dodgers to the West Coast. He never pretended to be a baseball man, overcoming that shortcoming by surrounding himself with keen talent mavens. Under O'Malley's stewardship, the Dodgers became the gold standard of baseball franchises.

Bowie Kuhn served as the fifth commissioner from 1969 to 1984, the most tumultuous economic period in Major League history. During his years in office, Kuhn, who passed away this past March, fought against overturning the reserve clause in the basic player contract, which was used by owners to bind players to their respective teams. During Kuhn's reign, baseball grew from a sport with 10 teams in each league to a multi-divisional format with a round of playoffs preceding the World Series and television network involvement and payouts both grew.

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Billy Southworth won two World Series titles with the Cardinals on three simple tenets that made him one of the greatest managers in baseball history: be patient, platoon players and bunt all the time. Overall, Southworth, who also captured the 1948 pennant with the Boston Braves, compiled a brilliant resume in a 13-year managerial career. He finished with a 1044-704 record and fashioned a .597 winning percentage, fifth on the all-time list and third best among managers with 1,000 wins, trailing only Hall of Famers Joe McCarthy and Frank Selee.

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