It is called the hall of fame after all
I think you need to go look up that word again, and then try and tell me how Steve Garvey does not belong in there. Dick Allen sure has some monster stats BTW if we are going to go the stat route, and many a contemporary article refers to Maury Wills as a future Hall Of Famer, he did after all bring speed back to baseball and ushered in the likes of Brock etc. For that alone I would put him in as well. I have of course already stated I am fairly lenient for the Hall. The criteria does not stipulate the absolute best of the best of the best like some act lke it does. There is plenty of room for the absolute best of the best (Ruth, Cobb, etc.), the compilers (Sutton, Yaz, Niekro), the great stories (Rizzuto, Tinker, Evers, Chance), and the guys at the right place at the right time (Mazeroski). The place does not have a finite nuber of spots and the idea is to tell the story of baseball and its history so I say the more the merrier, within reason of course.
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