Baseball hall of fame?
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Derek Jeter - no question he will go in\n \nAlex Rod - yes, he will go\n\nMatsui - tough to say, but with half a major league career and half of a Japanese career, he probably won't.\n\nJohnny Damon - No I don't think he will go, I don't see him putting up the career numbers necessary to make it, especially considering the fact that he's a center fielder. Writers who vote for the HOF expect more power from the CF position. He's played 11 seasons so far, but has only made the All-Star team twice...that's not very good...\n\n\nBarry Bonds - yes, unless they manage to ban him somehow, which is what they appear to be doing.\n\nJason Jambi (sic) - he MIGHT go, but it depends on how the writers view the steroids issue in 20 years. The further you get from the end of a player's career, the more important his stats become in the HOF's evaluation of him. Sportwriters like to think they have good memories, but most of them really don't.\n\n\nGary Shettfield - I think Shefield has a good chance to get in some day, unless he's somehow banned for steroid use. He's put great #s on the board, and has played for some winning teams. If his career is long enough to put some really great career numbers up, there's no reason he wouldn't go in eventually, though maybe not on the first few ballots.\n\n\nCarlos beltron - way too early to tell. But if he keeps up this quality of play for 10 to 12 years, he should make it.\n\nMike Pizzatza - Piazza is a shoe-in. Twelve all star games...  never won an MVP but finished 2nd twice and 3rd another time. A .311 career batting average to go along with  397 HR and 1,223 RBI... He's probably the best hitting catcher ever to play in the major leagues.  Slugging pct of .555... These are definitely Hall of Fame numbers, considering we're talking about a catcher here. Plus, he's had six 100-RBI season, with another four season in the 90+ RBI range.  It would be tough to find someone who played in 12 All Star Games and isn't in the HOF.\n\n\nPedro Marntiez - Yes, Pedro will go into the HOF.
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I don't know, but if there is a Petroleum Hall of Fame, you can bet he will be inducted.
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600 HR. But it's not a "record" per se, it is an acheivement.  A lot of people believe that if you can hit certain marks (X number of HRs or Y number of hits) you can ensure yourself a spot in the HOF.  That is why Palmerio, who was always an above-average player, but questionable HOFer, wanted so bad to hit the 3000 hit mark, because he felt that he could get into the Hall that way.\n\nSosa is currently at 588 and fifth on the list.  While it isn't possible for him to get to fourth (Willie Mays has 660), everyone with over 600 is in the HOF (Ruth, Aaron and Mays) or expected to get in (Bonds).  The interesting thing is that all eligible players with over 500 HRs are also in the HOF.\n\nIf you're interested, below is a list of the career HR leaders.
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Yes he would be much better than a lot of players already in, not that is a good argument, buy Bill James' book" What is Wrong with the Hall of Fame" and that gives very good arguments for and against a lot of players Oliva included. Oliva won 3 batting titles including one in his rookie year he was the best player on some very good Twins teams better than Killebrew and Carew he was what they now call a 5 tool player run, hit, hit for power, play defense, and throw. He was arguably the best player in the AL from 1964-1971 well this is just my opinion and I am a biased Twin fan but like I said he would probably be better than at least 20 players already in, so he would not be diluting the HOF.
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If he keeps up what he is doing this year then definatly. A run scored every game exept one, thats some potinential Hall of Fame Material.
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Edgar deserves to be in the Hall of Fame, he is the best DH every and a mentor to the younger players.  People who are against it say that it is because he doesn't play the field, however he was a DH so that means either people accept that position as a Hall of Fame worthy position or get rid of the position all together.  American League pitchers aren't banned because they don't hit.
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Does this have to do with baseball?
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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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Joe Jackson Hall of Famer
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http://www.worldbaseballclassic.com/2006/index.jsp
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Elected to Hall of Fame by Baseball Writers in 1979\n\n409 votes on 432 ballots   94.68% \n\nCan you believe there was actually 23 writers that didn't think he should be in The Hall?!
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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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Wow, thatniceguy gave a really long answer.  Here's a better answer.  Visit Cooperstown and The National Baseball Hall of Fame.  It will give you all the history you want to know and it is a great trip and a fun cozy town.  I've been there twice and I would go back again and again.  Baseball is a great game!!
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Abbott and Costello are NOT in the Baseball Hall of Fame.  That is an old myth.  See for yourself on the official list.\n\nhttp://www.baseballhalloffame.org
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello.\n\nActually their is a lot of people in the Hall of Fame who never played a game.  Their are managers, owners, umpires, executives, sports writers.  and broadcasters who are in the HOF.  \n\nThe correct question who are only two people who never covered, played, umpired, or worked in the MLB or Nero leagues whoa re in the Baseball Hall of Fame.  Abbott and Costello would be that answer.
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Amen Brother!\n\nSay it loud, and say it proud!\n\nYeah, The yankees are SOO last century!\n\nI know a good place for all those 26 old and rusty rings!\n\nHow many rings do they have in the 21st century?\n\nZIP\nZERO \nZILCH\nNONE\nNADA
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They should do a tribute to the steroid years.\nBonds\nCanseco\nMcGwire\nBrady Anderson\nPalmeiro\nSosa\netc....