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Originally Posted by G1911
Jack Morris
Harold Baines
Bill Mazeroski
Dennis Eckersley
Bruce Sutter
Effa Manley
Alex Pompez
Dick Williams
Billy Southworth
Joe Gordon
Jim Rice
Whitey Herzog
Bud Selig
Alan Trammell
Lee Smith
Buck O'Neil (Yes I like him too, before someone flips out. Being likable and telling good stories is not a qualification).
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Off the top of my head, three of these guys (Eck, Sutter and Rice) were elected by the writers.
So, if the HOF standard is being lowered, it's not the writers who are doing it.