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Posted By: jay behrens

Brian, I am not saying there is one correct answer. I am sort of saying that there are some obviously wrong answers that shaded by a 2006 perspective rather than a 1936 perspective. When old-timers get elected, they don't get elected to a retroactive class. They are go in the year they are voted in. Thus, if you are going ask a question like this, then you have to look at as if it were 1936 without all the mythology and hype that had built up the past 70 years. IF, is a huge word and pretty meaningless when discussing missed years etc. IF Tony Oliva stays healthy, he's a shoe in for the HOF. IF Dick Allen wasn't such a pain the ass and played longer, he'd be a show in for the HOF. IF, IF, IF. It's all meaningless and pointless.

David, baseball has no restrictions as to a max or minimum number of the players that can be elected each year. The HOF's biggest fear is that voters won't elect someone. I get the feeling that if there is a weak class that looks like no one will get elected, you bet your collection that the HOF is going to lobbying writers very hard to elect someone so that they have put on their cash cow party. No one will come if no one gets elected.

Jay

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