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Posted By: Jay Miller

The Candy Cummings listing has annoyed me for a while so I called the HOF. What I was told was that when Cummings was elected in 1939 they had different categories than they have today, and he was actually elected as a pioneer of the game for his supposed development of the curve ball. In recent times these categories have been changed and the pioneer category no longer exists. All players formerly in this category were reassigned to the executive category, even though they might not have been executives. The head of research said that if Cummings were elected today, given the categories that currently exist, he would be classified as a pitcher. I have asked that they review their listing procedure to correct these errors.