Top 25 Worst MLB HOFER’S

[bbcard1]

Buck O'Neil despite being a great human being and ambassador for the game has no business being in the hall. No real qualifications as a player (1.5 career WAR), manager (two Negro League titles after most of the talented players had been in the hall of fame...there were around six teams at the time) or executive (he was a coach and scout, not an executive). There is not ambassador category for the hall of fame. People always stand on their soapbox and tell me what a nice man he was...and I met him and he was, a real treasure. My Uncle Frank was nice, too, but he's not in the baseball hall of fame.

Just doesn't meet any criteria except that he got elected.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by bbcard1

Buck O'Neil despite being a great human being and ambassador for the game has no business being in the hall. No real qualifications as a player (1.5 career WAR), manager (two Negro League titles after most of the talented players had been in the hall of fame...there were around six teams at the time) or executive (he was a coach and scout, not an executive). There is not ambassador category for the hall of fame. People always stand on their soapbox and tell me what a nice man he was...and I met him and he was, a real treasure. My Uncle Frank was nice, too, but he's not in the baseball hall of fame.

Just doesn't meet any criteria except that he got elected.

This is a good pick. He is in the Hall for being likable and being a decades-after-the-fact symbol, not for for any actual performance.

[bbcard1]

Originally Posted by G1911

This is a good pick. He is in the Hall for being likable and being a decades-after-the-fact symbol, not for for any actual performance.

I will give him that he is the anti-Curt Schilling.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Originally Posted by bbcard1

Buck O'Neil despite being a great human being and ambassador for the game has no business being in the hall. No real qualifications as a player (1.5 career WAR), manager (two Negro League titles after most of the talented players had been in the hall of fame...there were around six teams at the time) or executive (he was a coach and scout, not an executive). There is not ambassador category for the hall of fame. People always stand on their soapbox and tell me what a nice man he was...and I met him and he was, a real treasure. My Uncle Frank was nice, too, but he's not in the baseball hall of fame.

Just doesn't meet any criteria except that he got elected.

Yeah, Buck has to be #1 worst pick for any on-field personnel. We've kinda beaten that subject to death in the past, and I'm always surprised by the number of people who feel the opposite way about it. Just because I don't think he deserves enshrinement does it mean that he wasn't a wonderful human being. As I believe I mentioned when this was brought up in another thread, I just wish they would consider adding an Ambassadors wing. Then, fine, Buck has a place that makes sense, and we can finally get O'Doul in as well.

On a related note, what about undeserving non-playing members of the Hall? Help me out: who was the one that many feel was accidentally inducted, Hulbert or Bulkeley? It supposedly should have been Nick Young.