My reluctance to go back and admit old timers aside, the argument for Hodges, and it's not a bad one in my view, is that there was an overall lowering of standards since his eligibility. Is he really all that different from a Jim Rice, an Andre Dawson, a Tony Perez, an Orlando Cepeda? I don't like those types of arguments in general -- X got in so Y must too -- but it seems like more of an argument about overall standards than a particular guy.
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