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To: TheExploited
Interesting perspective. However, with Rizzutto and Pee Wee in the H.O.F., can we exclude Ozzie???
11 posted on 01/01/2002 6:18:53 AM PST by undergroundwarrior
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To: undergroundwarrior
Interesting perspective. However, with Rizzutto and Pee Wee in the H.O.F., can we exclude Ozzie???

Ozzie is an obvious HOFer, but the argument that someone should be in the Hall because they are better than someone already in it is one of the many stupid HOF arguments that Bill James lays out.

Just because someone made a stupid decision earlier (Rizzuto; Pee Wee obviously belongs in the HOF) doesn't justify further stupid inclusions.

And because of the rampage of the Veteran's Committee in the 60s and 70s, there are all kinds of terrible players in the HOF from the 1930s; something like 1 out of 3 full time outfielders from the 30s are in the HOF.

If the HOF inclusion criteria became whether some player was better than the worst player in the HOF, we'd end up with 50% of the majors in the HOF eventually.

16 posted on 01/01/2002 6:54:44 AM PST by John H K
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