Just due: Santo gets his spot in Cooperstown

MLB.Com ^ | 5 December 2011 | Carrie Muskat

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Cubs great earns election to Hall via Golden Era Committee

DALLAS -- Ron Santo is clicking his heels in heaven.

Santo, the enthusiastic, popular and very resilient former Cubs third baseman, was elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Monday by the Golden Era Committee. Santo was one of 10 candidates on a ballot representing the era of the sport from 1947-72.

"I can see him sitting on the sofa here and he'd be pumping his fist in the air, saying, 'Yes, yes,'" Santo's wife Vicki said Monday from her Arizona home. "We feel he was meant to be there."

Santo died Dec. 3, 2010, so the news comes a year too late, but Vicki was undeterred in her enthusiasm.

"To have this come after his passing, it just shows you can't give up," Vicki said. "I'm a believer in what's meant to be. I believe he was meant to be in the Hall."

Santo's competition included former players Gil Hodges, Ken Boyer, Minnie Minoso, Tony Oliva, Jim Kaat, Allie Reynolds and Luis Tiant, and executives Charlie Finley and Buzzie Bavasi.

[raybbr]

Musial, Killebrew, Frank Robinson, Ernie Banks, Koufax...did any of them play for the Yanks, Sox or Mets? No. They were all-time greats, no-brainers for the HOF.

Okay, but you didn't name them in your original post.