Ok....what 3 pre-war HOF'ers would you boot out?

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Posted By: Chris Counts

Since booting HOFers would never go over with baseball fans, I believe the only realistic and fair thing to do is put in every player that is clearly better than someone already in there at his position. So because Fred Lindstrom and George Kell are in there, you have to induct Ken Boyer, Stan Hack and Ron Santo, who were simply better players. Wally Schang was much better than Ray Schalk, so he gets in. Minnie Minoso and Tony Oliva were better than half the HOF outfielders, many of whom padded their stats during the 1920s. As an example of how absurd the HOF is, consider the parallel careers of Lefty Gomez and Lon Warnecke. They have virtually the same career numbers — during virtually the same years — and yet nobody is calling for Warnecke's induction or Gomez' boot ...