Bonafide Baseball Hall of Famers

But 11 of the 226 people doing the voting didn't vote for him.

 

Are you saying Jesus was on steroids?

 

So we need to forgive the players who juiced, how the hell else were they supposed to compete.

 

Maybe. How do we know steroids didn't exist back then? [/Jeff Kent]

 

Maybe. Given his water-into-wine powers, how could he ever take a legitimate urine test?

 

Yeah, sorry, I meant those people weren't unanimous.

 

It's taken this long for someone to reference Major League? Ok, I'll do it. "You're trying to say Jesus Christ can't hit a curveball?"

 

He got outpolled by Ty Cobb, who also wasn't unanimous.

The two most dominant players of the first half of the 20th century and neither were unanimous. And Cy "511 Victories" Young had to wait a year before HE got in.

Enough said on this front.

Beat me to it, Cycling. Well played.

 

Just because 11 people found some stupid reason not to vote for Babe Ruth does not mean it is appropriate for a modern voter to refuse to vote for a guy he KNOWS is a Hall of Famer just to keep him from being unanimous.

 

Oh, I agree OOP. I was just stating the facts.

That Rickey Henderson, Tom Seaver and Cal Ripken -- just to pull three no-brainers from our era -- weren't unanimous says more about the idiocy of voters than it does about their qualifications.

 

Gotcha. And yes, it does.