This from a Red Sox Fan, but I do think Munson has HOF chops. Campanella played 500 games in the negro leagues and started playing at 16 but reasonably speaking how many extra mlb seasons would Campy have had? His accident occured when he was 35, Munson's when he was 32, so if you consider that 3 years difference and comp Campanella those years on the front end it's a wash. Munson had less power but better average, both were winners on winning teams. If I look at it from a yankee perspective, how is Joe Gordon in and Munson not? What about a Lou Boudreau? My argument really is less about whether Munson belongs in the Hall on a stand alone basis. It's more about the fact that the Hall sometimes seems to be about pure excellence, and other times about politics, popularity and emotion. If it is the latter, and it is, then what harm to the "integrity" of the hall is it to add a guy who was 10 years in and on his way and killed through no fault of his own?
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