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

[brianp-beme]

Okay, this thread has forced me into creating a list of players with Prewar cards that had at least 2 votes in a single BBWAA election, but also not more than 5. At the end of this list I have included a few notable players that had no more than 1 vote during a single BBWAA election, and some notable players with 5 or less votes on the original 1936 Veteran's Committee vote for 19th century players . I have excluded from consideration any voting from all other committees.

Grouped by the top amount of votes received in any one year, and in no particular order within each grouping:


5 votes

Bill Wambganss
Joe Bush
Fielder Jones
Firpo Marberry
Moe Berg
Max Bishop
Heinie Groh
Bill Bradley
Bill Carrigan


4 votes

Art Fletcher
Dolph Camilli
Cookie Lavagetto
Urban Shocker
George Uhle
Bill Donovan
Bob O'Farrell


3 votes

Jack Barry
Charlie Berry
Mort Cooper
Tony Cuccinello
Bill Doak
Lew Fonseca
Mike Gonzalez
Frankie Gustine
Willie Kamm
Roger Peckinpaugh
Luke Sewell
Bill Werber


2 votes

Joe Jackson
Eddie Foster
Eddie Grant
Deacon Phillippe
Terry Turner
George Earnshaw
Al Schacht
Tommy Thevenow
George Selkirk
Donie Bush
Guy Bush
Hughie Critz
Jim Tobin
Kid Elberfeld
Jake Daubert
George J. Burns
Ossee Schrecongost
Larry Doyle
Gavvy Cravath
Jack Combs
Marty Bergen
Hans Lobert
Sherry Magee
Ping Bodie
Wally Berger
Ossie Bluege
Ray Kremer
Fred Leach
Marty McManus
Lee Meadows
Van Lingle Mungo
Cy Perkins
Bill Sherdel
Riggs Stephenson
Red Kress
Bill Hallahan
George Case
Augie Galan


Notable players with maximum of 1 vote

Bobby Veach
Harry Steinfeldt
Sam Leever
Frank Schulte
Tommy Leach


1936 19th century Veteran's votes

Charlie Bennett - 3
Ross Barnes - 3
Fred Dunlap - 3
Jack Glasscock - 2
Ed Williamson - 2
Bobby Lowe - 2


Brian

[Beercan collector]

Jimmy Ryan
George Van Haltren

[packs]

Larry Doyle

[D. Bergin]

Reggie Smith - As has been mentioned by a couple people already. 64.5 WAR, 137 career OPS+

Ranked 19th All-Time in RF (though he played almost as many games in CF).

Injury history, particularly in the 2nd half of his career, caused him to miss lots of games, costing him plenty of counting stats.

Finished off his career with a couple of pretty strong seasons in Japan, when he left the Giants after the '82 season.

Ranked almost identical to Dwight Evans in many categories, who gets a lot of HOF love from modern day analysts.

3 HOF votes in 1988 and out.

[Yoda]

I believe the enshrinement of Bid McFee brought some collector interest to 19th century cards and memorabilia. When he was elected, his N172 card seemed to quadruple overnight. Fortunately, I had one in my Full Count inventory, so I was naturally pleased. Sold it about a year later for a nice profit.
I was reading an article recently from the old VCBC magazine (Dennis Purdy's great old mag) about 19th Century players deserving the Hall. Barnes was top of the list followed by a sundry of players, eg. Glasscock, Ryan etc. Sure wish VCBC was still around; it was a great reference tool and several board members contributed articles, like Kevin Struss and Barry Sloate.

[T206BrownHindu]

He did get (10) votes, but how Johan Santana didn’t get more is crazy. Two time Cy Young award winner and 6 straight top 7 finishes!

[raineybt]

Saw Moe Berg, probably a +1 on that for a similar reason to my submission.

Curt Flood is perhaps one of the most influential professional sports athletes of all time (in America) and has never even been on the Hall of Fame ballot. Curt Flood's lawsuit against baseball's reserve clause leads directly to the establishment of free agency, in baseball and all other pro sports.

He was also a Senator, so that's a plus 1. Agree on Denny McLean as well - looks like he got 4 total votes.

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Update to my own post! I was relying on this quote from his daughter: “Interestingly enough, my father has never been nominated to be in the Hall of Fame. He’s never been on the ballot,” Shelly Flood said.

But, according to Baseball Reference, Flood got 16 votes in 1977 and 8 votes in 1978, so - he's out!

I'll submit in his place Camilo Pascual and Pedro Ramos, who played for both the original Senators (that moved to Minnesota) and for the expansion Senators.

[Yoda]

Originally Posted by Yoda

I believe the enshrinement of Bid McFee brought some collector interest to 19th century cards and memorabilia. When he was elected, his N172 card seemed to quadruple overnight. Fortunately, I had one in my Full Count inventory, so I was naturally pleased. Sold it about a year later for a nice profit.
I was reading an article recently from the old VCBC magazine (Dennis Purdy's great old mag) about 19th Century players deserving the Hall. Barnes was top of the list followed by a sundry of players, eg. Glasscock, Ryan etc. Sure wish VCBC was still around; it was a great reference tool and several board members contributed articles, like Kevin Struss and Barry Sloate.

My bad. Correct surname is spelled McPhee. Apologies Bed.