Posted By:
Jason L...and me without my Captain America tie on!
I think it is fair to say that the HOF is in danger of hurting itself:
1) Dante Bichette received votes...the voting process is problematic
2) The HOF Induction weekend has become an ever increasingly important business to the local community/economy...what would happen if no one was elected one year? or 2-3 years in a row? So you have local incentive to put someone in every year...conspiracy theories abound...
3) Who knows Eppa Rixey NOW, never mind in 50 years!? The ever-present fight is to present interesting lessons in history...that is what they are there for...
and
4) Dante Bichette received votes
I don't think anyone should ever be reomved, or even re-categorized into subsets, like Golden Members (where's Austin Powers?), because that will simply serve to detract from how important it is to place the players within the context of their eras and contemporaries...I found the Bresnahan discussion to be very informative, because while his stats aren't great on an absolute basis, I was surprised to see how important he was for his time!
but seriously, the Dante Bichette thing is troublesome...