Golden Era Hall of Fame Ballot announced

[triwak]

And... No soup for you!!!

Votes Percentage
Dick Allen 11 68.8%
Tony Oliva 11 68.8%
Jim Kaat 10 62.5%
Maury Wills 9 56.3%
Minnie Minoso 8 50%
Ken Boyer 3 or fewer
Gil Hodges 3 or fewer
Bob Howsam 3 or fewer
Billy Pierce 3 or fewer
Luis Tiant 3 or fewer

http://baseballhall.org/hof/golden-e...ounces-results

[ibuysportsephemera]

What an absolute shame that Hodges is not going to be in the Hall of Fame...I just don't get it.

Jeff

[brewing]

Originally Posted by ibuysportsephemera

What an absolute shame that Hodges is not going to be in the Hall of Fame...I just don't get it.

Jeff

I get it. He was a really good player for 8 years.

[darwinbulldog]

But the MLB EloRater says he was better than Barry Bonds. If we can't trust the EloRater, whom can we trust?

[ibuysportsephemera]

Originally Posted by brewing

I get it. He was a really good player for 8 years.

And he won a World Series as a player and a manager...how many others can say the same thing? Once in a while it shouldn't be all about the stats.

Jeff

[packs]

Hodges never received less than 49% of the vote while he was on the active ballot. If half the people who ever saw your play thought you were a HOFer, I think there's something to that.

Compare that to recent Veterans Committee inductees:

Santo - never topped 40 %
Joe Gordon - never topped 28.5 %
Mazz - never topped 42 %

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by packs

Hodges never received less than 49% of the vote while he was on the active ballot. If half the people who ever saw your play thought you were a HOFer, I think there's something to that.

Compare that to recent Veterans Committee inductees:

Santo - never topped 40 %
Joe Gordon - never topped 28.5 %
Mazz - never topped 42 %

None of them deserved it either.

[packs]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

None of them deserved it either.

Maybe. But the point I was trying to make was that these players, who the Veterans Committee voted in, never received a higher percentage of votes than Hodges received in his weakest year while on the active ballot. Yet they chose not to elect Hodges.