We seem to do a similar thread every six months or so.
There are so many calls for Deacon White. I am starting to understand why, but see him as more of a "right place at the right time" type of pioneer in the way that his career unfolded. How much of what he accomplished was due to happenstance in a game that was then in its adolescence? I've always thought his brother Will to be deserving of enshrinement.
How Hank O'Day has been overlooked as an umpire is beyond me. He wasn't a very socially approachable man; I think this is the only reason he wasn't an early inductee. At the very least, he should have been inducted the same year as Klem.
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