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Posted By: Kevin Cummings

Give 'em the Hook
Johnny Evers, Frank Chance, Jack Chesbro, Chick Hafey, Jesse Haines, Freddy Lindstrom, Rube Marquard, Tommy McCarthy, Mickey Welch, Ross Youngs

Roll Out the Red Carpet
Bill Dahlen, Andre Dawson, Darrell Evans, Dwight Evans, Keith Hernandez, Tommy John, Jim Kaat, Carl Mays, Jack Quinn, Ron Santo
(Pete Rose and Joe Jackson when the HOF people come to their senses)

Julie:

Are you looking at the same statistics for Bid McPhee that everybody else is? Bill James called him the finest defensive second baseman of the 19th century (a hypothetical Gold Glove winner 9 times and league leader in double plays 11 times). His fielding percentage (+25) and range factor (+61) on Baseball-Reference.com is so far ahead of his contemporaries it is laughable. Other "pure fielder" HOFers at his position were not nearly as far ahead of their contemporaries (Mazeroski +7, +86; Fox +7, +55) as McPhee. And all without a glove for most of his career. He belonged long before the 10 stiffs at the top of this post.