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Originally Posted by jingram058
Well, if we're going down this road, here is $.02, FWIW...no, I don't think Harold Mediocre Baines needs to be in, and no Maris doesn't need to get in. Like the man said, if he hit 59, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
But consider these rather serious omissions...Chuck Klein, Riggs Stephenson, Cecil Travis, and Gil Hodges.
Then we have Joe Jackson (he didn't take the money), Pete Rose (I couldn't care less about his gambling), and Barry Bonds (I couldn't care less about his steroids).
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I'm a big fan of Riggs Stephenson as my avatar and user id indicate.
Is he more deserving than some of the people already in the Hall? Yes...hello Fred Lindstrom. But he really wasn't a HOF caliber player.
There are already way too many mistakes from that big-hitting era of the late 20's and 1930's. We don't need any more.
Although I collect them both, either he nor Maris belong in the Hall.