The Veterans Committee was the popular name of the National Baseball Hall of Fame Committee to Consider Managers, Umpires, Executives and Long-Retired Players; a former voting committee of the U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame that provided an opportunity for Hall of Fame enshrinement to all individuals who are eligible for induction but ineligible for consideration by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA).
 The term "Veterans Committee" (was composed of four committees of baseball veterans) is taken from the body's former official name: National Baseball Hall of Fame Committee on Baseball Veterans (1953).
Bruce Neal Froemming ( ; born September 28, 1939 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is Major League Baseball Special Assistant to the Vice President on Umpiring, after having served as an umpire in Major League Baseball.
 He is the longest-tenured umpire in major league history in terms of the number of full seasons umpired, finishing his 37th season in 2007.
 He first umpired in the National League in 1971, and from 2000 to 2007 worked throughout both major leagues.
 Early in the 2007 season, Froemming tied Bill Klem for the most seasons umpired (Klem's final season, 1941, included only 11 games as a substitute).
 Previously, on August 16, 2006, Froemming umpired his 5,000th game between the Detroit Tigers and Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park, making him the second umpire to reach that milestone; Klem retired after 5,374 games.
 On April 20, 2007, he umpired at first base in the Cleveland Indians-Tampa Bay Devil Rays game, passing Klem to become – at age 67 years 204 days – the man then believed to be the oldest umpire in major league history; Hank O'Day holds the record, retiring at 68 years, 2 months.
 He worked his final regular-season game at age 68 years 2 days on September 30, 2007, when Froemming received a standing ovation before umpiring his last regular-season game, manning the third base position as the Milwaukee Brewers hosted the San Diego Padres at Miller Park in his native Milwaukee, with much of his family in attendance.
 Because Froemming is over age 65, he became eligible for election to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2010 instead of having to wait the customary five years.
David Mark Winfield (born October 3, 1951) is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) right fielder.
 He is currently special assistant to the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association.
 Over his 22-year career, he played for six teams: the San Diego Padres, New York Yankees, California Angels, Toronto Blue Jays, Minnesota Twins, and Cleveland Indians.
 He had the winning hit in the 1992 World Series with the Blue Jays over the Atlanta Braves.
Elections to the Baseball Hall of Fame for 2001 followed the system in use since 1995.
 The Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) voted by mail to select from recent major league players and elected two: Kirby Puckett and Dave Winfield.
 The Veterans Committee met in closed sessions and selected two people from multiple classified ballots: Bill Mazeroski and Hilton Smith.
Richard Ward Reuter (1918–2005) was an American executive known for working at relief agencies.
 A pacifist and a conscientious objector, he worked with the American Friends Service Committee during World War II.
 He joined CARE in 1946 and served as its Executive Director from 1955 to 1962.
 In that role he led a revitalizing and repurposing of the organization.
 He also worked in conjunction with the start of the Peace Corps.
 He was then appointed by President John F. Kennedy in 1962 to serve as Special Assistant to the President and Director of Food for Peace, succeeding the founding director, George McGovern.
 He stayed in that role through 1965 when, under President Lyndon B. Johnson, the program was subsumed under the United States Department of State.
 There he became Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Food for Peace, until he left in 1966, reportedly dismayed by the direction the food program was taking.
 After leaving the government, he worked for Kraft Foods from 1967 to 1984, becoming a vice president and director of purchasing.
José de la Caridad Méndez (March 19, 1887 – October 31, 1928) was a Cuban right-handed pitcher and manager in baseball's Negro Leagues.
 Born in Cárdenas, Matanzas, he died at age 41 in Havana.
 Known in Cuba as "El Diamante Negro" (the "Black Diamond"), he became a legend in his homeland.
 He was one of the first group of players elected to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939.
 He was elected to the U.S. National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006.
Albert Fred "Red" Schoendienst ( ; born February 2, 1923) is an American Major League Baseball (MLB) coach, and former player and manager.
 An outstanding second baseman, he played for 19 years with the St. Louis Cardinals (1945–56, 1961–63), New York Giants (1956–57) and Milwaukee Braves (1957–60), and was named to 10 All Star teams.
 He then managed the Cardinals from 1965 through 1976 - the second-longest managerial tenure in the team's history (behind Tony La Russa).
 Under his direction, St. Louis won the 1967 and 1968 National League pennants and the 1967 World Series, and he was named National League Manager of the Year in both 1967 and 1968.
 He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989.
 Schoendienst remains with the Cardinals as a special assistant coach; as of 2017 he has worn a Major League uniform as a player, coach, or manager for 73 consecutive seasons.
Amanda Simpson (born March 26, 1961) is the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Operational Energy.
 Operational Energy is the energy required for training, moving, and sustaining military forces and weapons platforms for military operations.
 The term includes energy used by power systems, generators, logistics assets, and weapons platforms employed by military forces during training and in the field.
 Previously Ms. Simpson was the Executive Director of the U.S. Army Office of Energy Initiatives (OEI) (previously named the Army Energy Initiatives Task Force) leading the Army’s efforts to implement large-scale renewable energy projects.
 Her first posting in the Army was as the Special Assistant to the Army Acquisition Executive.
 In that role she was a principal advisor to the United States Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology on all matters relating to Army acquisition, procurement, research & development and logistics.
 Upon her appointment to the position of Senior Technical Advisor in the Bureau of Industry and Security in 2010, she became the first openly transgender woman political appointee of any Presidential administration.
 Simpson worked in the United States Department of Defense.
The Golden Era Committee ("The Committee") is one of three 16-member committees of National Baseball Hall of Fame members, appointed by the Board of Directors of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2010 to replace the former Veterans Committee to consider and elect eligible candidates to the Hall of Fame not eligible by the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) ballot.
 Beginning in 2011, the Golden Era Committee (consisting of eight Hall of Fame members, five executives, and three media members) considers and then elects (first election, December 5) to the Hall of Fame every 3 years, retired Major League Baseball players that are no longer eligible for election by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BWAA) along with managers, umpires, and executives from the 1947 to 1972 era.
The Supply Priorities and Allocation Board (SPAB) was a United States administrative entity within the Office for Emergency Management which was created and dissolved during World War II.
 The Board was created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt via Executive Order 8875 on August 28, 1941 and dissolved less than four months later.
 The purpose of the Supply Priorities and Allocation Board was to coordinate the distribution of materials and commodities related to national defense and to assist the Office of Production Management (OPM) in carrying out their overlapping duties.
 The Board's membership consisted of the Director General (William S. Knudsen) and Associate Director General (Sidney Hillman) of the OPM, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Administrator of the Office of Price Administration Leon Henderson, Chairman of the Economic Defense Board Henry A. Wallace (who was also the Vice President of the United States) and the Special Assistant to the President supervising the Lend-Lease program, Edward Stettinius, Jr..
 The President retained the power to appoint an Executive Director and to select the Chairman of the Board from its members.
 The only Chairman of SPAB during its short lifespan was Vice President Wallace and its sole Executive Director was businessman Donald M. Nelson.

Question: Baseball Hall of Fame balloting for 2001 elected the player who is now special assistant to the executive director of what group?
Answer: Major League Baseball Players Association