I completely get the points above. But somehow it just doesn't sit right with me. He may have had only a few great seasons but WOW weren't they great.
3x World Series Champion (the last being with the Cards)
7x All-star
2x MVP
I look at some of other names in the HOF and really can't understand the disparity. I mean Fergie Jenkins....really???? I remember watching him during the 70s. Nobody I knew considered him a star. Yet there he is in the HOF.
It seems to me that if you had a longer fairly average career that allowed you to rack up some career totals, you have a shot at the HOF. Somehow, it it doesn't seem right.
Even Nellie Fox (and I love Nellie)...is he really that much better than Maris?
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Working on the following sets: 1916 and 1917 Zeenut, 1954B, 1955B, 1971T and 1972T
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