Nominations for the Hall Of Commons - let's play.

[Mark17]

Earl Battey

From Wikipedia: Richard Kendall of the Society for American Baseball Research devised an unscientific study that ranked Battey as the seventh most dominating fielding catcher in major league history.

[tod41]

Jon Matlack

[UKCardGuy]

Jim Sunburg

[tod41]

Sal Bando
Joe Rudi
Greg Luzinski
Amos Otis
Ken Singleton
Jay Buhner

[thatkidfromjerrymaguire]

I think Bo Jackson fits the bill.

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[jakebeckleyoldeagleeye]

Roy Sievers. he had some really good years on bad teams and played In Griffith Stadium with a long left field distance. Won first AL ROY and beat out Mantle and Williams for a HR and RBI title.

[raineybt]

7 total votes over two years on the ballot (1971 and 1972). If we expanded this to 10 votes or less, Sievers is a first ballot guy! 1957 Home Run Champ!

Originally Posted by jakebeckleyoldeagleeye

Roy Sievers. he had some really good years on bad teams and played In Griffith Stadium with a long left field distance. Won first AL ROY and beat out Mantle and Williams for a HR and RBI title.

[Brian Van Horn]

My all-time favorite Pirate:

Manny Sanguillen.

[packs]

They're technically eliminated because they got 6 votes but I always thought Moises Alou and Alfonso Soriano were great players. WAR does not like them at all.

[benedini]

Hope my research was right that he only got three votes but my favorite player as a kid was Bucky Dent. World series hero and solid player.

[skil55voy]

Mickey Lolich

[Misunderestimated]

Pete Rose...(is he eligible for this HOF?)

[KJA]

Originally Posted by Misunderestimated

Pete Rose...(is he eligible for this HOF?)

Pete Rose wouldn't be, he got 41 votes in 1992

[Mungo Hungo]

Originally Posted by Brian Van Horn

My all-time favorite Pirate:

Manny Sanguillen.

If you're having a bad day or are down on human nature, you only need to watch some clips of Sanguillen play, and all seems good.

[Chris-Counts]

Mark Fidrych. For one glorious season, he was the most beloved ballplayer on earth. As for Cecil Travis, it's truly sad that he lived to be nearly 100 and never received the call from Cooperstown. The argument by the Hall of Fame's stingy and utterly clueless gatekeepers is that he didn't play long enough. But he did record the third highest career batting average of any shortstop all-time, and would likely have continued playing, but WWII got in the way, and he lost a couple toes in the Battle of the Bulge. The way I see it, the Hall of Fame was built for guys like Cecil.