HOF Results

bnorth · #1 12-05-2021, 06:14 PM

This "card" was given out(SGA) when Tony got into the Twins HOF many many years ago. I got him to sign it a few years ago. Tony was very surprised to see the card and asked how I got it. When I told him I was there he got a huge smile and was a very nice gentleman.

mrreality68 · #2 12-05-2021, 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by bnorth

This "card" was given out(SGA) when Tony got into the Twins HOF many many years ago. I got him to sign it a few years ago. Tony was very surprised to see the card and asked how I got it. When I told him I was there he got a huge smile and was a very nice gentleman.

Very nice

Great display

Hankphenom · #3 12-05-2021, 07:33 PM

So very happy for Buck, a truly wonderful man. Wish he was around to enjoy it.

earlywynnfan · #4 12-05-2021, 07:38 PM

I agree with the majority of posts here: These choices don't water down the hall, and we probably all had a favorite to argue for in this group. (I thought Minoso deserved this a long time ago, and I always wanted Buck in.) I also agree that Tommy John should get ready to update his resume, he and Kaat are so similar.

How about some autographs?? Sorry to say, I don't have a Fowler. (Does anyone???)

egri · #5 12-05-2021, 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by earlywynnfan

How about some autographs?? Sorry to say, I don't have a Fowler. (Does anyone???)

The only one of the new inductees I have, obtained TTM in November 2014:

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Brian Van Horn · #6 12-05-2021, 08:03 PM

Talk about rarely getting an autograph. Outside of Manny Sanguillen and in hockey Mario Lemieux and J Bob "Battleship" Kelly. Not for sale:

rhettyeakley · #7 12-05-2021, 08:44 PM

Here is a tough to find early Buck O'Neil item.

flpm08 · #8 12-05-2021, 09:01 PM

All modern selections were well deserved choices, i.e., Hodges, Minoso, kaat and Oliva. I cannot comment on Fowler or O'Neil since my knowledge of the Negro leagues is not that great. I think that Allen, who was so close, should have made it. He was a very good player.
Like several other persons who commented on the selections, I was extremely happy to see that Gil Hodges made the Hall. Growing up in New Jersey in the late 1940s and 1950s the Dodgers were a fixture on WOR Channel 9. The Boys of Summer now have five starters in the Hall of Fame , Reese, Robinson, Snider, Campy and Hodges. I am sure that Doris Kearns Goodwin who wrote that classic, Wait 'Till Next Year, is also happy.
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sycks22 · #9 12-05-2021, 09:03 PM

Happy to see two fellow Twins getting in. Kaat / Oliva are great guys as well.

Mike D. · #10 12-05-2021, 09:14 PM

The committee's actually meet in person and discuss the candidates, then vote...so it's not particularly shocking they reached something like a consensus.

jingram058 · #11 12-06-2021, 07:38 PM

Here is a great photo of "Mr. White Sox", Minnie Minoso. That is one sharp-looking uniform he is wearing!

Casey2296 · #12 12-05-2021, 09:13 PM

Happy for Buck but would have been more appropriate to induct him and Lefty at the same time for the same reason, Without Lefty O'Doul Shoei Ohtani wouldn't be playing For the Angels.

BillyCoxDodgers3B · #13 12-06-2021, 08:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Casey2296

Happy for Buck but would have been more appropriate to induct him and Lefty at the same time for the same reason, Without Lefty O'Doul Shoei Ohtani wouldn't be playing For the Angels.

Yes, and they should have created a separate "Ambassadors" category for both of them. Electing Buck in any other capacity is a bigger joke than Harold Baines being inducted. As wonderful a human being as he was, O'Neil had no business being considered for enshrinement alongside people who were being elected predominantly on the basis of their level of play.

chadeast · #14 12-06-2021, 12:59 PM

I'm really happy about Oliva. He was a truly great hitter. I think that he's been undervalued due to the fact that he played during the modern deadball era of the early and mid sixties when the game greatly favored pitchers and they were putting up sub 2.00 ERAs. His career was on the short side, but OPS+ of 130 or more for seven straight years is a helluva run. His rookie year was insane, especially considering it happened in 1964.

Yoda · #15 12-06-2021, 01:09 PM

Perhaps Allen's sometimes odd behavior kept him 1 vote shy?

cjedmonton · #16 12-06-2021, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Yoda

Perhaps Allen's sometimes odd behavior kept him 1 vote shy?

That�s the only thing I could think of�but how many on that 16 person panel even had direct interactions with Allen to have wanted to hold back their vote for him if they had a negative experience?

clydepepper · #17 12-05-2021, 07:45 PM

I'm so happy that two of 'my three Cubans' got in!

This is a GREAT GROUP!- VERY WORTHY!!

It's great that Oliva & Kaat got in while still living.

It's a shame that Minnie and Gil weren't elected while they were still around.

Sad that Dick Allen fell one vote short...

GIL HODGES! Finally!

I love Buck O'Neil! What a great ambassador of the Game.

Lefty O'Doul was also a great ambassador for the Game...maybe next time.

I thought Ken Boyer and Billy Pierce were great players, but borderline HOF candidates.

I still want Luis Tiant, Jr. to be in.

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