No.
Murphy is not in the Hall of Fame because Atlanta is a small-market (I guess anything but LA or NY is a small market now?), he is not in because the voters looked at the math instead of his popularity.
I am hard pressed to think of a team with more guys not in the Hall of Fame but who have an argument than the Yankees. I am unable to identify many underserving Yankee since WWII (the 1930's have the lowest standards and many teams have numerous undeserving players from that period). Phil Rizzuto, Catfish Hunter & Joe Gordon, though I think only Rizzuto is in because he was a Yankee. Hunter is in for his 5 20 win seasons, 80% with the A's. I'm not sure this implicit claim is supportable at all.
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