The Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot is Out

The 2007 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot has been released, and it is full of worthy and controversial candidates. Obviously I do not have a vote, not that the sportswriter that choose these players for enshrinement in the Baseball Hall of Fame are any more qualified for the job than the average fan is. Unfortunately, that is the system in place, and these scribes all too often let their personal feeling get in the way of better judgment when it comes to the Baseball Hall of Fame selections. What plays all too big a role in someone's selection to the Hall of Fame includes if someone was a good interview back in the day, was well liked, had trouble with the law, or gave one of these writers a hard time, even if these sportswriters deny it.

I, however, have no such limitations when deciding who is Baseball Hall of Fame worthy, and this year you would need to hold the enshrinement ceremony in a town bigger than Cooperstown if it were up to me, because I have no less than thirteen players on the Hall of Fame ballot that I can easily make cases for and will. As a matter of fact, there are so many that have been given the shaft that I will limit this article to the ten who have been snubbed thus far unjustly, and tell you why they should not be excluded from the baseball Hall of Fame.

Let me start out by saying that the givens this year are Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken Jr, both members of the 3,000 hit club, and Mark McGuire should be unless someone has proof of steroid use that I haven't been privy to. The holier than thou sportswriters will make an example out of him for sure, but he will make it someday when this steroid era talk has died down. Here are the poor fellas that are going to have to beg to get in to the Baseball Hall of Fame, as apparently their accomplishments were not enough. As for me, I say build another wing on the old building and open the doors to all these players. I know a Baseball Hall of Famer when I see one.