Inaugural Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 1936

[BobC]

Originally Posted by molenick

Thank you, Bob for some information I was not aware of...I did not know the voting procedures for the Veteran's Committee stipulated only five votes...that alone makes it harder for anyone to get 75% of the vote, even before the 1/2 vote situation you mentioned.

To be honest with you, I wasn't fully aware of everything myself, and did a little checking after your post. When I saw the info on the botched-up procedures and vote counting for the 19th century players, it just blew my mind how idiotic what they ended up doing really was. You literally, after the fact, change the rules so that the entire vote by the 19th century veterans committee was absolutely worthless.

Here's a listing of who all got votes from both committees. What is also interesting is those that were listed as suggested HOF players, and then ended up never getting into the Hall. Makes you wonder how when the vast majority of those listed on those initial ballots did get into HOF eventually, what happened to the few that didn't. One would think that those on the suggested lists were all deserving, yet what changed? Or is it more of the modern bias where those older players became more and more forgotten as time went by, to the point where they don't get the credit and consideration they really deserve from modern fans and critics. Those people back then actually got to see these people play, and really know how good they truly were, and that is why they put them up for HOF status. Who are we today to now go back and say they were wrong, without being disrespectful and biased towards how the game used to be played, and who was considered as great at that time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_B...Fame_balloting