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Ryan ChristoffMost glaring omissions:
1. Dick Redding
2. John Beckwith
3. Dick Lundy
4. Buck O'Neil
There are others like Oms, Marcelle and Brewer that also should have gotten in before some of the ones that did, but Redding and Beckwith are the only two that I would truly call mistakes.
Most surprising inductees:
1. Sol White
2. Alejandro Pompez
3. Andy Cooper
None of those are undeserving, but there are others that are much more deserving. The problem is, Sol White was a good player but not HOF-caliber. He is in because he wrote a book. If Sol White is in, Buck O'Neil should be in. Neither of them as players, but both of them for their overall contributions to the game.
-Ryan