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Judge DredMark, interesting thought and input. Players in the 1950s and 1960s had off season jobs to supplement their baseball incomes. I believe that it wasn't just the rookies and over the hill (minimally paid) vets that were working during the off season, there were stars working as well.
It would be impossible to cross/compare player stats into different eras so we should probably stick to comparing players within the same eras. I'm fairly certain that if you took Nolan Ryan back to the 1880s he'd have smoked everyone and his strikeout and win totals would be incredibly wicked.
In a comparison of eras there are many players that deserve to be enshrined based on the population and stats of the players already enshrined from their respective eras.