Slightly OT - 2020 Modern Baseball Era HOF Ballot

[Tabe]

Originally Posted by topcat61

I agree. Dome was overshadowed during his career and most of this life because of this brother Joe. How fair is that? I'ma little bias when it comes to Dom being from Massachusetts, but he also lost time from serving in the Navy.

If we add every guy who ever played that's better than Rizzuto, we'll end up with hundreds of guys that don't belong in the Hall, Dom Dimaggio among them.

[JollyElm]

Scooter was the wildly popular, wacky voice of the Yankees for seemingly 100 years. Without question, that was a (I would say HUGE) part of the reasoning for his enshrinement, player statistics aside.

[mr2686]

To me there's two schools of thought on players like Rizzuto and Reese being in the HOF. One is there overall numbers are not there. The other is that they were playing a tough position during a tough era when sliding hard in to the shortstop was the norm, and they were still there helping their teams get to the World Series almost every year. With that said, and with the Vet Committee voters voting them in, then why wouldn't they in turn vote in Bert Campaneris and Dave Concepcion? Different era, but same circumstances in my book.

[perezfan]

Because neither of them played in New York?