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Posted By: Chad

Yes, it's stupid. But 25 years from now, what does it matter? They're in. Does anyone care that King Kelly got elected to the HOF in a mass group? Many of these players should have been in decades ago. It's about time they rectified that. As for Manley, there are plenty of executives/pioneers in the HOF who didn't play. She's the weakest inductee, but she's not without a case. It's not an unreasonable selection. I would rather Home Run Johnson or Buck or Dick Redding had been elected, but people need to understand how hard, allmost impossible it was, to keep a franchise stable in the Negro Leagues. And it was the fact that there were a few stable franchises that made various incarnations of the Negro Leagues possible. The Monarchs, the Grays and the Eagles were all able to do it, and all three of their operators are in the Hall. I would have only voted for Posey and Wilkinson, but I can see the committees point on Pompez and Manley. They're not enshrinees out of left field.

--Chad