Baseball Hall Of Fame?
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There is nobody in the Baseball Hall of Fame that had nothing to do with baseball.  The most common incorrect answer is Abbott and Costello.  They themselves are not in the Hall of Fame.  Their skit "Who's on first?" is.
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Road To The Hall Of Fame
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I guess Murph won't get inducted unless it's by the veterans committee, which is a real shame.  During the 80's the guy was as dominant as anyone in the game.  If Dawson gets in, then Dale shouldn't be too far behind.  Similar to Murphy, Dawson played for a poor team and put up some huge numbers.  I'm also pulling for Dale b/c he's such a nice guy and a fantastic ambassador for baseball.
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Is this related to baseball?
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Sell it to the MLB Hall of Fame. They would probably love to get their hands on it.
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Yes, he should go for the following reasons:\n1. He has the stats to be an automatic hall of famer.\n2. What steroid did he take??  He took Creatine, which is a body building enhancer but is not a steroid.  \n3. Even if Sosa and McGuire were jacked up on every steroid known to man, there was no rule against it in baseball until after their record-breaking chase.\n4. People say McGuire and Sosa carried baseball in the 1996-1998 seasons.  Although I agree with ESPN announcer Mike Greenberg that if they did not do it, someone else would have stepped up and carried baseball...I do believe that they were the best ambassadors for baseball at that time.  Can you picture Barry Bonds and Manny Ramirez having the same good-guy media image for the game of baseball as those two had?\n5. It's not like McGuire came out of nowhere and started hitting monster number of homreuns.  10 out of 11 seasons where McGuire played 100 games or more, he hit over 30 homers.\n\nAs you can tell, I am a very strong supporter of McGuire going into the hall of fame.  HOWEVER, I don't think he is a first ballot hall of famer, just because of the legends he is facing on the ballot this year.  Ripken and Gwynn are average everyday guys who went to work everyday and worked hard at perfecting their craft.  They became legends while they were playing, not for monster homerun numbers, or huge strikeout numbers,  but for doing the simple things in the game to perfection and showing every   Tom, Dick and Harry out there that if you work hard at what you believe in, you too can acheive greatness.  They were ambassafors to the game every day of their lives.  I am hoping the Hall of Fame voters are smart enough to vote McGuire in on the second ballot.
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At 38, he's approaching it, if not there yet. Too bad he suffered all those injuries in his career. He could have been a great ballplayer. With 538 HRs, he'll most likely get voted into the Hall of Fame. Not on the first ballot, however. Chances are, he might last for another five years, if he agrees to be traded to the AL to DH.
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Here's a beauty:\n\nhttp://www.terryroy.com/yankees.html
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Wikipedia is usually good, just type the players name into the search box.\n\nIf you need a list of players from a team, Baseball Library is better.
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Cy Young's 511 career wins. In the modern era 300 wins is considered a lock for the hall of fame. Just think, it would take 20 seasons of 25 wins to reach 500... then you're still another half season away. The active player closest to him - Roger Clemens with 341 wins. He'd have to pitch 8 more 20+ win seasons to get there. It'll never be broken.
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Bernie is a Yankee!!   Mickey Mantle, Don Mattingly, Whitey Ford, Joe DiMaggio, were Yankees and only Yankees.  Bernie is on a very special list of players to wear only Yankees pin strips.  Even Yogi Berra can't say that as he played briefly with the Mets before retiring.  If the Yankees offer him a contract, good, if not retire.  My only concern would be that in my humble opinion Bernie would need 300 career home runs and 2500 career hits to give him a real shot at the Hall of Fame.  Right now he is just short on both counts.  With 4 world series rings and 6 AL pennants and a batting title he still might make it.
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Re: chicagoflip33's comment on the White Sox being the 'best team in Major League history'... they most certainly were not...\n\n The 1919 White Sox are a much-overrated team by historians (and ESPN).\n\nEveryone seems to think that they would have easily beaten the Reds in the World Series that year.\n\nIt so happens that the best single season won/loss percentage during the 1910's decade was by the 1912 Boston Red Sox, who finished 105-47 (.691).\n\nGuess which team had the SECOND best won/loss percentage of any single-season team of that decade?\n\nThat would be the 1919 Cincinnati Reds, who finished 96-44 (.686) Fewer games were played in seasons during some of the World War I years, which deprived them of the distinction of winning over 100 games.\n\nThe 1919 White Sox finished 88-52 (.629), only 3 and 1/2 games ahead of second place Cleveland... the White Sox were hardly a dominant team.\n\nTheir greatness was quite exaggerated in the "Eight Men Out" film (a movie which I enjoyed, btw).\n\nThe White Sox every day lineup consisted of two superstars (Eddie Collins and Joe Jackson), three pretty good players (Buck Weaver, Ray Schalk and Happy Felsch) and three guys who frankly weren't very good. Schalk is in the Hall of Fame, but he selection was a mistake by the Veterans Committee in the mid '50s.\n\nBut anything that makes a player or a team famous tends to make them over-rated. The White Sox ended up being terribly over-rated, ironically, because they threw the World Series.\n\n\n\n\nBut yes, the eight members of the White Sox were banned from Baseball (and as a result, banned from the Hall of Fame). Joe Jackson is the only "Black Sox" player who would have made the Hall of Fame were it not for the fix.\n\nAltogether, there were more than twenty men who were banned from baseball during this era. Bill James wrote an excellent summary of the banned players in his Historical Baseball Abstract.\n\nBlack Sox:\n\nEddie Cicotte\nHappy Felsch\nChick Gandil\nJoe Jackson\nFred McMullin\nSwede Risberg\nBuck Weaver\nLefty Williams\n\nIn the aftermath of a number of scandals in the 1910-1925 period, the following active players were banned from baseball (in addition to the eight Black Sox):\n\n\nHal Chase (probably holds all time record for games fixed)\nPhil Douglas - Banned for life\nJean Dubuc - Banned for life\nJoe Gedeon - banned for life\nBenny Kauff - Banned for life\nLee Magee - Banned for life\nJimmy O'Connell - Banned for life\nGene Paulette - Banned for life\nHeine Zimmerman - Banned for life\n\nThere were also some retired players who were not invited to any old timers games:\n\nClaude Hendrix - Never officially banned, but persona non grata in baseball after 1920\n\nBill Burns (played by Christopher Lloyd in "Eight Men Out"\nCozy Dolan\n\nBilly Maharg (also in "Eight Men Out", he's the former boxer... "yeah, I've seen you...you're a bum!)\n\nDutch Leonard \n\nPaul Carter - Persona non grata after 1920\n\nThis period of time is known by baseball historians to be a period of many scandals and game-fixing rumors. The Black Sox are the best remembered, of course, because it involved the World Series.\n\nThe term "Black Sox" actually had nothing to do with throwing the series...the Sox were already known by that name because their cheapa$$ owner, Charlie Comiskey, wouldn't pay to have their uniforms cleaned. So the players refused to wash their uniforms themselves, and just got dirtier and dirtier.
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Man, you answered your own question, by saying: "... How many guys actually shoot for this record? Most don't care."\n\nBy that yardstick alone, Cal's record of 3,198+ consecutive games played is EXTRAORDINARY!  If no one else cares, and this outstanding player, who did it everyday in the same Oriole uniform, at that--did do it, then isn't that one he11 of an acomplishment?  \n\nOf the three former players eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame this next year, i.e., Ripken, Mark McGwire, and lovable Mr. Tony Gwinn, Cal is the most dominant, the most durable, and yes, the most reliable of the three, and dang well better be inducted on the first ballot, or there is something wrong 'round here.
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There already is a basketball hall of fame.  It's been there since the 70's and was opened the same day as MJ's third birthday.
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If Barry Bonds retired in 1998, he would be a hall of famer. The second he rubbed on the cream, injected the clear, posed for ZMA, he ruined his life. Barry Bonds does not deserve the hall of fame. He cheated. Winners never cheat. Cheaters never win. Besides if he was in the hall of fame, they couldnt make a plaque because his head is too big.
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Sorry pal,\n\nas a white sox fan I have taken an oath to never divulge the secret location of the curse-breaking talisman. We have gone through great lengths over the years to hide it from cub-nation.\n\nOur work almost came undone when the red sox found out its where abouts, but we made a deal to let them use it in 2004 if they make a promise to never let the cubs ever know of its sacred resting place.\nso too bad.\n\nbut hey,\n\nthere's always next year right?...
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The hall of fame is for MLB players.  If O'Niel is in, then Josh Gibson is the HR king with over 900 hr's and Satchel Page is the best pitcher not Cy Young or Nolan Ryan.  But thank god those are not the rules.