Is this the year that Ron Santo finally makes it into the Baseball Hall of Fame? Veterans Committee releases their results in February. Will Santo make the Hall? Will the Veterans vote ANYONE in?
2007-01-10 07:51:42 · 4 answers · asked by Patti C 6 in Sports ➔ Baseball
I hope so. He was the best NL 3B of his era. In the field he was the best outside of Brooks Robinson and Robinson, of course, is in a class by himself. At the plate he was better than Robinson and maybe the best hitting 3B of his time, period.
My votes: Santo, Tony Oliva, Gil Hodges, Lefty O'Doul, Wes Ferrell, Cecil Travis.
2007-01-10 09:47:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- Gil Hodges, Ron Santo, Tony Oliva and Jim Kaat are among the 27 players on next year's Veterans Committee ballot for the Hall of Fame announced Thursday.
Umpire Doug Harvey, former Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley and former union head Marvin Miller are among 15 managers, executives and umpires on the 15-man "composite" ballot.
No one received the required 75 percent in the first two votes by the new Veterans Committee, in 2003 and 2005. In the last vote, Hodges and Santo received 65 percent, falling eight votes shy.
Oliva and Jim Kaat were the only other players to be picked on more than half of the ballots.
In the composite vote, held every four years, Harvey received 48 votes in 2003, falling 12 short. O'Malley was next with 38 and Miller had 35.
The 84 eligible voters on the Veterans Committee include 61 living Hall of Famers, 14 members of the broadcast wing, eight members of the writers wing and one holdover from the previous Veterans Committee. Voting results will be announced Feb. 27.
Four players were added to the ballot: Lefty O'Doul, Al Oliver, Cecil Travis and Mickey Vernon. Two were dropped: Elston Howard and Smoky Joe Wood.
Holdovers also include Dick Allen, Bobby Bonds, Ken Boyer, Rocky Colavito, Wes Ferrell, Curt Flood, Joe Gordon, Mickey Lolich, Sparky Lyle, Roger Maris, Marty Marion, Carl Mays, Minnie Minoso, Thurman Munson, Don Newcombe, Vada Pinson, Luis Tiant, Joe Torre and Maury Wills.
The composite ballot remained the same. It also includes Buzzie Bavasi, August Busch Jr., Harry Dalton, Charles O. Finley, Whitey Herzog, Bowie Kuhn, Billy Martin, Gabe Paul, Paul Richards, Bill White, Dick Williams and Phil Wrigley.
2007-01-10 07:54:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes he deseves to be there is overall record is comparable to all the 3rd basemen in the Hall I think is should mandatory that the Veterans committee puts at least on person in a year...they haven't done that for the past 3 years,,in my opinion they need to make up for those years...i know there is minimum % that need to get in ..but if a person doesn't get it the one that has the highest % should get in..like Santo had last year
2007-01-10 08:19:54 · answer #3 · answered by nas88car300 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oliva should get in before Santo does!!
2007-01-10 08:55:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋