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Chris CountsI'm clearly in the minority here, but I believe baseball should simply induct every player that meets the standards of the previous inductees, since that is the only tangible criteria that exists. So instead of kicking out Rabbit Maranville, Bill Mazeroski and others (it will never happen anyway), I advocate putting in Minnie Minoso (who was better than Chick Hafey), Alan Trammell (who was better than Dave Bancroft) and about 100 other guys who were as good as Ray Schalk (Wally Schang was better), Jesse Haines (Lon Warnecke was just as good), etc. Yes, a small, very vocal group of fans would go nuts (I'm expecting to get cursed just for suggesting this), but baseball fans in general would applaud the move and ultimately become more interested in baseball history, especially if a few of their hometown heroes made the grade. It's just what baseball could use right now. With its present bogged down by the steroid scandal, why not celebrate what's best about baseball's past?