sdd@pyuxh.UUCP (S Daniels) (12/31/85)
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, Jr., 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? -- Steve Daniels (!pyuxh!sdd) "I'm counting the smiles on the road to Utopia."