Maybe I'm viewing this too simplistically, but IMO it is really simple -- Rizzuto is a HOFer because he has been elected to the HOF. You can argue about whether that was a good selection or a poor one, whether he should have been selected or not, whether Ted Williams' viewpoint should or should not have triumphed, but that is a different issue.
When all is said and done and you get down to the nut-cutting, he has been elected. He is in the HOF and is thus a HOFer. Period. He isn't going to get kicked out because some non-voters disagree with the selection, so get over it. There are a number of people on the outside looking in that I would personally have chosen before him, but I don't get to vote.
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