2022 Golden Days ERA HOF Nominees
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2021 12:58 pm
https://baseballhall.org/discover/golde ... allot-2022
Since there's no MLB business being conducted, this caught my eye. I thought that today would be a good day to bring it up for comments because it takes us back to our younger and more impressionable days.
I looked at other pages on the mlb.com site, including videos of Bob Costas' and Steve Blass' remarks plus the other committees and qualifications for elections.
My first question was- 'When are the results announed?' I haven't seen that on these pages, so if it's there, I missed it. Does anyone know? I wonder if they'd be announced while there's a lockout in place. I'd support anything that makes us feel better than today.
I'm fortunate to have seen most of these nominees play or manage in person. I've seen some while watching televised games. There's one (Billy Pierce) who I don't recall much, mainly because of my age and when he played.
From what I can tell, there's no limit to the number of guys who can get elected. As long as they get 75% of the committee's votes, they're in (unless someone finds a correction to that.)
I'm not a guy who likes seeng every Tom, Dick, and Harry get into the Hall Of Fame, but I have to say- If I was on the committee, I'd have a hard time NOT to vote in favor of any of these men. Some might not have "the numbers" that some folks give weight to, but I agree with Costas that, in their cases, they have a historical significance to The Game.
I'll conclude with a guy that I was "on the fence" with for decades- Danny Murtaugh. For the longest time, I leaned a little more "away" from than in favor of. That was until our man, Surge, wrote something [I can't remember if was here oun our OBFF or our previous boards] that made me swing to the "For" side. I can't remember the specifics of what Surge wrote, but I think that it may have had somethign to do with Murtaugh's decision-making in the 1960 and/or 1971 World Series. I write that in hopes that Surge remembers what he wrote and would post it again. Most everyone else just says that the guy won two World Series (as Blass says in the video) and/or that he fielded the first all-minority lineup card. While those are important by themselves, I'll admit that it took more to get me off the fence. Surge did.
This is to take nothing away from the other nominees. There are too many for me to list my opinions on. They're all remarkable achievers, and, as I said, I'd vote in favor of all of them that I have more knowlege of. Pierce is one who I'd have to go only by reading stats.
Thoughts on any of this?
Since there's no MLB business being conducted, this caught my eye. I thought that today would be a good day to bring it up for comments because it takes us back to our younger and more impressionable days.
I looked at other pages on the mlb.com site, including videos of Bob Costas' and Steve Blass' remarks plus the other committees and qualifications for elections.
My first question was- 'When are the results announed?' I haven't seen that on these pages, so if it's there, I missed it. Does anyone know? I wonder if they'd be announced while there's a lockout in place. I'd support anything that makes us feel better than today.
I'm fortunate to have seen most of these nominees play or manage in person. I've seen some while watching televised games. There's one (Billy Pierce) who I don't recall much, mainly because of my age and when he played.
From what I can tell, there's no limit to the number of guys who can get elected. As long as they get 75% of the committee's votes, they're in (unless someone finds a correction to that.)
I'm not a guy who likes seeng every Tom, Dick, and Harry get into the Hall Of Fame, but I have to say- If I was on the committee, I'd have a hard time NOT to vote in favor of any of these men. Some might not have "the numbers" that some folks give weight to, but I agree with Costas that, in their cases, they have a historical significance to The Game.
I'll conclude with a guy that I was "on the fence" with for decades- Danny Murtaugh. For the longest time, I leaned a little more "away" from than in favor of. That was until our man, Surge, wrote something [I can't remember if was here oun our OBFF or our previous boards] that made me swing to the "For" side. I can't remember the specifics of what Surge wrote, but I think that it may have had somethign to do with Murtaugh's decision-making in the 1960 and/or 1971 World Series. I write that in hopes that Surge remembers what he wrote and would post it again. Most everyone else just says that the guy won two World Series (as Blass says in the video) and/or that he fielded the first all-minority lineup card. While those are important by themselves, I'll admit that it took more to get me off the fence. Surge did.
This is to take nothing away from the other nominees. There are too many for me to list my opinions on. They're all remarkable achievers, and, as I said, I'd vote in favor of all of them that I have more knowlege of. Pierce is one who I'd have to go only by reading stats.
Thoughts on any of this?