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12-04-2021, 07:48 AM
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I think in one of the most 2021 things ever, I expect one candidate who has no documentable qualifications to be elected to the Baseball Hall of fame with be chosen (O'Neil) because of intangibles and being a nice guy while another who clearly has the on-field qualifications and no taint of HGH (Schilling) will not be selected because he is not a nice guy.
Donaldson and Redding are much better Negro League candidates than O'Neil. I met Buck several times and he was an amazing man which is all that any one of us can hope to be, but you really have to do some mental and statistical gymnastics to make him a hall of famer. But it couldn't happened to a nicer guy.
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12-04-2021, 07:54 AM
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Can’t find it, but there was a great Hodges story I saw once about some Mets player had to bail on an appearance one winters night at a Temple in Brooklyn and Gil caught wind of it and he and his wife got dressed and walked over so someone would be there to represent the Mets.
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12-04-2021, 08:12 AM
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When will it be decided?
I keep reading that he's on a ballot, but when will it be voted on or otherwise decided?
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12-04-2021, 09:45 AM
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12-04-2021, 11:02 AM
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Just one more nice, small nugget about Gil: I believe he is one of the few players ever to hit four homers in one game. If he isn't elected on this, I guess, his final go around, perhaps all Net 54 members should gather for one day in Cooperstown to protest his lack of enshrinement. Isn't that the great American way to demonstrate peacefully? I would go as I am retired and have bags of spare time. Aren't there some great card shops in Cooperstown?
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12-04-2021, 12:17 PM
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12-04-2021, 12:33 PM
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If these players’ contemporary voters, who watched them play their entire careers, didn’t think they were hall-of-fame worthy, why should modern voters, who never actually saw them play, now find them worthy?
I agree there are exceptions, especially if racism or other factors kept a worthy player out, but if these factors weren’t present at the original time, modern voters should not reweigh these players’ worthiness worthiness when the contemporary voters, who were in the best position to decide, said no. Just my two cents.
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