[net.sport.baseball] Hall of Fame

david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin) (01/08/85)

[The votes have been counted and the winners are...]

(1) Hoyt Wilhelm: Father of the Knuckleball becomes the first reliever
      win induction.

(2) Lou Brock:  3,000 hits and his doomed career record for steals
      made Brock the 15th man to enter the Hall of Fame the first
      year he was eligable.

Just missing was Nelson "Nellie" Fox, who recieved 295 of the 297
needed for election this year.  It was the closest election since
Ralph Kiner won election by 1 vote in his last year of eligibility
(1975).  This was Fox's last year, too, and he is now the property of
the Oldtimer's committee.

					David Rubin
			{allegra|astrovax|princeton}!fisher!david

pellegri@ittral.UUCP (Dan Pellegrino) (01/11/85)

Another year of Hall of Fame voting reminds me that Phil Rizzuto is not in.
I hope Mr. Foxx gets better treatment from the Oldtimer's Committee.

d. pellegrino
ittvax!ittral!pellegrino

jjc@houxa.UUCP (J.CARBONARO) (01/02/86)

<There's been a lot of nettalk about what makes a player worthy of
<being in the Hall of Fame: single season stats or lifetime consistency?
<
<Art Rust, a radio talk show host in New York, suggested the better criteria was
<dominance.  The selections seemed, to him, to be players who dominated their
<era.  For example, Sandy Koufax had a relatively short career but was virtually
<unbeatable for a few years.  Roberto Clemente, tragically, fit the same mold.
<
<By that standard, Maris gets in--easy.  But I bet he won't make it because
<the Baseball Writers Association wouldn't honor a man they tried to destroy.
<
<Well netters, what do you say?

Just this - why do you think Clemente had a "relatively short career"?  He
played long enough to get 3,000 hits!