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During 1958 the "useful idiots" in Congress held Anti-Trust hearings on Baseball. These Senators made the mistake of calling Casey Stengel to
testify. For hours at end, Casey held court, and held them spell-bound.

After which Senator Kefauver called Mickey Mantle to testify. Mantle's only response to Kefauver...."My views are about the same as Casey's".


Well, whatever Frank Wakefield said in post #33....then, "my views are about the same as Frank W's".

Bill Dahlen, "Turkey" Donlin, "Cactus Gavy" Cravath, Lefty O'Doul, Ed Reulbach, and Cecil Travis should all be in the HOF. And, there is still some
hope for any these guys....as it was quite recent (1995) that Vic Willis was inducted into the HOF.

Some of the inexplicable HOF selections (or lack of) in the past 50 years is best exemplified by the Veteran's Committee election of Johnny Mize
in 1981. Mize was elligible for the HOF since 1959....so, why was Mize passed over by the HOF Committee for all those years ?
Even Bill James, with his "sabr-metrics", gives Mize a high rating. Better yet, Lawrence Ritter includes Mize in his book "The 100 Greatest Baseball
Players of All Time."

So guys, check-out Johnny's numbers....then, explain to me why Johhny Mize was not elected to the HOF thru the "front door", before 1981 ? ?


TED Z