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Originally Posted by Mike D.
I always thought the "percent of the vote" thing is given more attention than it deserves, both from those who would "protect" the "unanimous" and those who concern themselves too much with who got what.
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One minor thing that public ballots has more or less done away with is the whole "local writer throws a vote to local favorite who's clearly not a Hall of Famer". Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, I don't really have an opinion on.
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Yeah, when people argue over the greatest player(s) at any given position they bring up stuff like OPS, WAR, JAWS, WHIP, ERA, but no one ever brings up their percentage of the HOF vote.
Jerry Remy, who grew up right around Boston and spent most of his career with the Red Sox, got a HOF vote. Had to have been a local writer. Eric Karros got two HOF votes!