Nobody makes baseball hall of fame this year

[Fun For All]

When I was a kid, I loved to watch Billy Pierce pitch for the Chisox whenever they played the Tigers on Saturday afternoon tv with Ernie Harwell and George Kell announcing. Pierce, a Detroit native, pitched well and consistently for the Chisox for many years. For a fairly crummy team, he had a couple of twenty game seasons, won over 200 games and had a respectable ERA of 3.27 ,he was never flashy or a big mouth, a gentleman of a player.
Compared to several pitchers already in the Hall of Fame, his results were about equal or better, for example, Waite Hoyt, Jim Bunning, Dizzy Dean, Lefty Gomez, et al.
When he was eligible, he received less than 2% support for the initial five years. Still, I wonder why he isn't in the Hall of Fame.
For Blue Jays fans, two names cry out, Fred McGriff and Carlos Delgado. There is no reason why these guys aren't in the Hall. If they had hit just a few more homers to tally 500, they would have been shoo-ins.

For McGriff and Delgado, there was never a sniff about PED accusations in their career.

I remember there was some negative views about McGriff being traded in the deal that brought Alomar and Carter to the Jays...now the deal did work out but McGriff was young and good.

 

[bluecolt]

Whenever i watched a game on television in the sixties, I looked forward to the Cleveland Indians, who at that time, had good pitching. Pitchers like Sonny Siebert and John O'Donaghue were competent enough and threw hard, but I always wanted to see "Sudden" Sam McDowell toss the pill. He was a tall rangy lefty who could throw the ball through a brick wall. He led the Al in strikeouts for most of the sixties and retired at only 32 from a blown out arm. He averaged at least a strikeout per inning during his career and hit 300 strikeouts a couple of times. All the other pitchers with 300+ plus strikeouts per season are in the Hall of Fame. Although McDowell did walk a lot of players, his lifetime ERA was creditable with a twenty game season. He was a spectacular pitcher when he was on. Maybe he should get a little consideration from the Veterans Committee.

 

[Fun For All]

Whenever i watched a game on television in the sixties, I looked forward to the Cleveland Indians, who at that time, had good pitching. Pitchers like Sonny Siebert and John O'Donaghue were competent enough and threw hard, but I always wanted to see "Sudden" Sam McDowell toss the pill. He was a tall rangy lefty who could throw the ball through a brick wall. He led the Al in strikeouts for most of the sixties and retired at only 32 from a blown out arm. He averaged at least a strikeout per inning during his career and hit 300 strikeouts a couple of times. All the other pitchers with 300+ plus strikeouts per season are in the Hall of Fame. Although McDowell did walk a lot of players, his lifetime ERA was creditable with a twenty game season. He was a spectacular pitcher when he was on. Maybe he should get a little consideration from the Veterans Committee.

I remember Sam McDowell...hard thrower...he doesn't have the numbers for HOF...read more about him, you might change your mind, later career and life wasn't great.

Sam McDowell - Wikipedia

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