Re: Baseball HOF Results
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I have to wonder what the mentality of some of the voters is for voting for anyone who's not in the top 5-10. Surely the guy who voted for Walk Weiss does not believe that he belongs in the HOF...so what's the motivation for voting for guys like him?
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In the Keith Olbermann/Dan Patrick ESPN book (can't remember the name), Olbermann tells a story about how HOF voters often will vote for a lower-tier guy just as a pat on the back kind of thing. "Hey, I voted for you, pal."
But one year, Olbermann says, a lot of the voters had the same idea -- and picked the same guy. So he got in. I'll try to find the story on the Web, but I don't think it was any time recently.
But anyway, I think some voters throw a bone to the guys they know won't get in as a nice gesture. Which is ridiculous.
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The book "The Big Show" had an entire chapter on the HOF and basically Keith said that the HOF was eternally cheapened when the Veterans Committee put Rick Farrell in in 1984. He said that there was a political thing going on where guys would put a guy on the ballot so that they can tell him that they voted for him - but that year, too many guys did it the same year and he got in - with these career stats:
18 Seasons 1884 6028 687 1692 324 45 28 734 29 35 931 277 .281 .378 .363 2190 103 0 0 10 55.
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