I've wondered if the delay on Mize had to do with him playing with the Yankees and Cardinals. Lots of Yankees got into the Hall. Lots of Cardinals and Giants, too; many on merit, maybe a few from politics by Frisch and others. And politics may well have helped a Yankee or two. If that was the perception then a backlash to that might have happened. Slaughter would have been in the same boat. I recall the story about him sitting on the bench in the clubhouse, crying at the news that he'd been traded to NY. Was Mize abrasive with the media? Was that a two way street??
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