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Article: Leaving Gossage out of Hall again a shame, shows flaws of process
- Article from:
- The Gazette
- Article date:
- January 11, 2006
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First, a disclaimer: I don't like the Baseball Hall of Fame
selection process. As soon as I was old enough to understand what the
Hall of Fame meant, I also found out Hank Aaron received votes on
only 97.2 percent of the ballots.
Aaron fell nine idiots shy of what he should have earned -- a
unanimous selection.
There are still some idiots in the Baseball Writers Association of
America. And they number more than nine.
The 2006 Hall of Fame class was announced Tuesday. For the seventh
consecutive year, Rich "Goose" Gossage failed to make the list of
athletes bound for Cooperstown.
ESPN.com has 10 Baseball Hall of Fame voters who contribute to the
site. Gossage was on all of their ballots. ...