Is it just me? The post-Hall of Fame elections analysis

January 12, 2011

I can’t remember so much chatter on the web about the selections for the Hall of Fame as this year, both before the elections were held and after Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven were voted in. Most are all about comparisons: why Player A should be in, especially if similar Player B was elected. The athletes are rated across various eras, which is always problematic: night games, expansion teams, segregation, etc. Here are just a few that really caught my eye.

Sports Illustrated‘s Joe Posnanski posted several rather lengthy and quite thoughtful entries on the process:

In addition, The Platoon Advantage blog re-examines the predictions Bill James made in his 1994 book The Politics of Glory: How Baseball’s Hall of Fame Really Works (later reissued as Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame).

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Tagged as: Bert Blyleven, Bill James, Joe Posnanski, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Roberto Alomar

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