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Posted By: Andrew Parks

He was the defensive backbone of arguably the greatest baseball franchise in baseball history. Those Cubs hold the records for wins in a season, wins in successive seasons, wins in three straight seasons, and every other number of straight seasons up to eight or nine I believe. Bill James wrote that in one of his books and I wish I could remember where the streak exactly stops.

The Cubs' popularity and dynasty was enough to give the voters a reason to put quite a few guys off those teams in the Hall: Chance, Evers, Tinker, and Brown.

Then there was that poem called "Baseball's Saddest Lexicon" (Tinker to Evers to Chance).

Also what other Shortstops were there through the 40's to put in?

I would think those were the reasons.