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Posted By: jay behrens

Not sure what pubs read adn don't read, but Maz was one of the few players passed over by the sportswriters that there was a huge outcry of injustice. You can probaaly blame as SABR as much as the HR for getting him into the HOF. Off the top of my head, Bobby Grich is the only other player that gets as much attention from SABR for not being in the HOF but whose numbers seem to warrant election. I am not going to go into details here. You can grab just about any book by Bill James, Pete Palmer or Rod Thorn and see what they have to say.

I assume by your rational then, that Harmon Killebrew, Eddie Murray, Ralph Kiner and other players that cannot play defense very well do not belong in HOF. Likewise, I suppose Pee Wee Reese, Phil Rizzuto, Ozzie Smith, Brooks Robinson and other great fielding, light hitting players don't belong either.

If you are looking for the only players that have the perfect combination of hitting, fielding and baseb running, then HOF going to be limited to Cobb, Wagner, Mays, Clemente and few others, and I mean very few others.

Jay