Mark Fidrych. For one glorious season, he was the most beloved ballplayer on earth. As for Cecil Travis, it's truly sad that he lived to be nearly 100 and never received the call from Cooperstown. The argument by the Hall of Fame's stingy and utterly clueless gatekeepers is that he didn't play long enough. But he did record the third highest career batting average of any shortstop all-time, and would likely have continued playing, but WWII got in the way, and he lost a couple toes in the Battle of the Bulge. The way I see it, the Hall of Fame was built for guys like Cecil.
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