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Posted By: Pennsylvania Ted

Good question....and, my uncomplicated answer is....just look at who voted....

Collins‚ Coombs, Johnson‚ C. Mack‚ Sisler‚ Speaker, etc. For the most part, all these guys were Cobb's contemporaries.
They regarded Ruth as an "upstart", a new generation player that didn't fit the old "deadball" era mold. His prodigious HR's
were not yet quite fashionable.

And yes, they did vote in 1942; however, these "oldies" had a mindset "stuck" back in early the 20th Century game. And,
nothing since then was going to change their thinking.

It's like me, here we are in the 21st Century....but, in my mind the greatest Baseball that I ever saw was played in the
late 1940's, thru the 1950's, and into the 1960's. Think about this, I bet you that when you reflect back to your youth,
you probably think a better calibre of BB was played back then, than is now ?

TED Z