Tuesday, February 27, 2007

The Entire VC HOF Ballot Review

Quick set of links if you want to read the entire candidate review in order without having to scroll down and up and down and up and down and up....

VC Preliminaries
The Non-players, part 1 (Bavasi, Busch, Dalton, Finley, Harvey)
The Non-players, part 2 (Herzog, Kuhn, Martin, Miller, O'Malley)
The Non-players, part 3 (Paul, Richards, White, Williams, Wrigley)
The Players, part 1 (Allen, Bonds, Boyer, Colavito, Flood, Gordon, Hodges)
The Players, part 2 (Marion, Maris, Minoso, Munson, O'Doul, Oliva, Oliver)
The Players, part 3 (Pinson, Santo, Torre, Travis, Vernon, Wills)
The Players, part 4 (the pitchers - Ferrell, Kaat, Lolich, Lyle, Mays, Newcombe, Tiant)

My summary ballots.

Non-players: Charley O. Finley, Doug Harvey, Marvin Miller, Walter O'Malley.

Players: Dick Allen, Ken Boyer, Joe Gordon, Minnie Minoso, Ron Santo.

Hall ballots do not have rankings, but if I could pick only one name from each, I'd go with Miller and Santo. A review of major league baseball history has a gaping hole without Miller, and Santo simply was a great player not sufficiently appreciated in his own time.

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