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Posted By: <b>jay behrens</b><p>The reason so many players got elected at one time is because this is a one-time, special election. This will never happen again and the only way a NeLer can get in now is via the VC like every other ball player.<br /><br />Jay<br><br>I've just reached Upper Lower Class. I am now officially a babe magnet for poor chicks.

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Posted By: <b>identify7</b><p>I can understand rookie card collectors not accepting pre-rookie cards because the player was not yet a MLB rookie.<br /><br />I can understand some people thinking that Negro Leaguers should not be in the HOF because they were not MLB players.<br /><br />The same could apply to umpires, owners, managers, Japanese Leaguers, Cuban Leaguers, etc.<br /><br />Evidence exists (Suzuki, Aaron, others) that Major League Baseball did and probably still does not have a talent monopoly in baseball.<br /><br />I agree that Maranville and Ruth are HOFers who bring different levels of talent to the baseball table.<br /><br />But the HOF is a tribute. Bestowed on those deserving, and withheld for reasons deemed valid. In recognition of those worthy of tribute some has been granted. More needs to be.<br /><br />I wish that the HOF was something other than it is. But it is not. There aren’t degrees of greatness, categories of recipients, nor fixed criteria for assessment of value. And there are errors, politics and judgements.<br /><br />The Hall of Fame; love it or leave it. I have chosen to leave it. I have no more regard for their choices and rationale than I do for grading companies who impose their evaluation criteria on our hobby.<br /><br />Somehow to my thinking tho, there are greater omissions outstanding than the enshrinement of Minoso.<br />

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Posted By: <b>Matt Goebel</b><p>I think part of the problem is that people think of it as the "Major League" baseball Hall of Fame, when it is in fact the "National" baseball Hall of Fame. No where at all is it limited to Major Leaguers.

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Posted By: <b>warshawlaw</b><p>The election just made my collection a whole lot messier to complete. I try to get autographed tribute cards of the NLers (e.g. Perez Steele, etc.). How the *&*&% am I supposed to do that for most of these guys??? The idiots at the HOF are so inconsiderate of us collectors! J/K <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>pete</b><p>that i didnt mean the caliber of negro ball players wasnt as high as the major league players, because its obvious that there are a lot of negro leaguers that deserve the honor, probably more than we know of, but the fact that it was a different league, just like minor leaguers or the women ball players...on the band ball players i think that a special section that highlights their careers like jackson and rose particularly, then point out the reason WHY they arent in the hall<br />(and in no way am i back pedaling)<br />pete-

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Posted By: <b>Brian</b><p>The only three HOF cards I own are Dihigo, Dandridge and now Ray Brown. I am damned glad I bought my 1945/46 Caramelos Felices set when I did.<br /><br />I feel very badly for Buck right now...<br />

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Posted By: <b>Julie Vognar</b><p>Effe and Minnie and Buck and all of em. Sutter's O.K. too. HOOOOHAAA (diNiro).