Ok....what 3 pre-war HOF'ers would you boot out?

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Posted By: Anonymous

I guess I'm not all that keen on putting players in the HOF for what their teams accomplished. All the players you mentioned were certainly good but if you check their stats its difficult to justify them in the HOF. The Giants are grossly over-represented because the Fordam Flash basically ruling the Vet. Committe and put it lots of guys he played with. ALos I think Groh was probably better than some of the ones who did get in (at least career wise). I'm probably a bit hard on Pennock. But he pitched for some of the best hitting teams ever I don't think he made that big a difference. If you examine his pitching numbers next to the rest of the HOF pitchers they are inadequate. He wasn't ever that dominant winning 20 games only twice and his lifetime numbers don't make it up his lifetime ERA was barely better than the league average. He was voted into the HOF in 1948 -- soon after his untimely death. Now that I think of it I guess Chief Bender doesn't really belong either.

Alot of what ij ust wrote applies to the famous cubs troika as well, I guess. However,I think Evers and Chance have more to recommend them than simply their place on the Cubs. Also the hitting numbers in the 1900's were generally much weaker than the 1920's. And the Cubs 1906-10 were probably better (for their time) than the Giants of the early 1920's.