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Jeff SI know there are a handful of guys that most of us vintage collectors feel should really be in the Hall. However, I wonder if it would be more practical if there were a cut-off point, say 50 years after retirement (or even 30), when a player should no longer be eligible.
There are two reasons why I suggest this:
1. Voters have no basis for judgement (as noted above).
2. They've had enough chances already!
The veterans committee, in some form or another, has been voting in early ballplayers every couple of years for decades. At some point, you just gotta draw the line. Tony Mullane's stats aren't getting any better, and the longer it takes, the more perspective we lose on why the original voters kept him out year after year.
On a different note: I read an article which mentioned that Jim Palmer did some research and claimed to have voted for Carl Mays as a result of it. So not all of the voters are complete slackers...