Golden Era Hall of Fame Ballot announced

[earlywynnfan]

If any exec out there is going to get in, it should be Howsam. He built the Cardinals of the 60's and the Big Frickin' Red Machine!

Not to start a war, but how many chances do you Hodges fans want???

[Peter_Spaeth]

My reluctance to go back and admit old timers aside, the argument for Hodges, and it's not a bad one in my view, is that there was an overall lowering of standards since his eligibility. Is he really all that different from a Jim Rice, an Andre Dawson, a Tony Perez, an Orlando Cepeda? I don't like those types of arguments in general -- X got in so Y must too -- but it seems like more of an argument about overall standards than a particular guy.

[ejharrington]

I think the Baseball HOF gets it right compared to other Halls of Fame; it strikes the right balance between being too stringent and letting too many players in.

In my opinion, just looking at the numbers I would not vote for any of the listed players but, having said that, except for Kaat and Tiant at the tail end of their careers, I never saw any of them play.