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DJMy favorite Hall Of Famer is Ty Cobb simply because he didn't care about how he was perceived and didn't care if people hated him or his teammates. So much folklore on an absolutely amazing stick and so much drama that he would not survive in this current world of baseball which would curb the way he behaved.
The perfect recipe to make a Ty Cobb would be: Add one Terrell Owens, one Mike Tyson, one Ron Artest and one John Rocker and you would have the "Shirley Temple version" of Ty Cobb.
My least favorite...well, many don't deserve to be the Hall and many of you have made that the reason for them not being your favorite and most of you went back a while...so I will go with Kirby Puckett, whom I wouldn't put in the Hall, but that's me. If he would have played 2-3 more years, maybe.
I have dealt with Puckett on a number of occasions and he simply wasn't a nice man. He was nice to "those within the game" (I.E Randy Johnson is nice to fellow players, but treats the outside world like crap), but Puckett was always surly when I was around him and rarely treated the outside world with much compassion. People who didn't know this side of Puckett thought he was a great guy and the Sports Illustrated piece wasn't a shock to those around him...nor was his arrest.
DJ
edited to say: Comiskey sucks too.