Those 117 gentlemen should have joined Mariano Rivera as unanimous selections to the None of them did. If anything, I undercounted. I do allow for some honest difference of opinion. Nor am I including ...
On this date in 1936, the U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame elected its first members in Cooperstown, N.Y.: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, ...
1937 — Nap Lajoie, Tris Speaker and Cy Young are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in the second year of voting. 1952 — The Professional Golfers Association approves the participation of ...
Fame is achieved by the exceptional, by the accomplished, by the exceptionally accomplished … or by pure dumb luck (or lack thereof). Fame is bestowed upon humankind by humankind, which is to say, it ...
1937 — Nap Lajoie, Tris Speaker and Cy Young are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in the second year of voting. 1952 — The Professional Golfers Association approves the participation of blacks in ...
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BBWAA: Elected by the Baseball Writers Association of America ... VC: Alexander Joy Cartwright, Henry Chadwick. 1937 — BBWAA: Nap Lajoie, Tris Speaker, Cy Young. VC: Morgan Bulkeley, Ban ...
Year-by-year inductees to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame ... 1937 — BBWAA: Nap Lajoie, Tris Speaker, Cy Young. VC: Morgan Bulkeley, Ban Johnson, Connie Mack, John McGraw, George Wright.
My examination of the 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot continues ... are Rogers Hornsby (eight times), Eddie Collins (eight), Nap Lajoie (seven), Joe Morgan (five), Charlie Gehringer (five ...