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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth
Ted yeah I think he got in under the Dizzy Dean/Sandy Koufax exception that where you only have 5 or so great years but they are REALLY great years, they'll overlook insufficient career numbers. It's strange how he suddenly became great and just as suddenly went back to being average.
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Peter
Don't discount the influence of Gehringer as the Chairman of the HOF Veterans Committee in getting Newhouser in the HOF.
Gehringer was quoted as saying that he would never allow Rizzuto to be inducted in the HOF. When Charlie was no longer on this HOF Committee and Ted Williams was on this
Committee, Rizzuto got in.
I was not surprised about Rizzuto being in the HOF, since in a conversation with Ted Williams (in Cooperstown in the 1980's), Ted personally told me how he felt about Rizzuto.
Ted said.... " If The Scooter was with the Red Sox all those years, the Red Sox would have been the Champions and not the Yankees ". He thought very highly of how effective
Rizzuto was as a lead-off batter, a base stealer, and a Shortstop.
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