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Originally Posted by Balticfox
...That plus the fact that his home team fans were cheering against him when he set his record. Those are Yankee fans for you but being derided for excellence by your own team's fans would have been tough on any player. The bottom line though is that it's the Baseball Hall of Fame and Maris is still more famous than most of the inductees. And he fits the current meaning of the word "famous".
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I can't see putting someone in for one year no matter how remarkable.
Maybe it's "apples to oranges," but Ed Barrow was elected to the HOF for having one great season - 1919, when he sold Ruth to the Yankees.
