Ron Santo added to Veterans' Ballot!!

I wish there were a way to lobby these members of the Vets committee. What a shame that he’s not there already.

Getting the most or nearly the most votes the past few times should qualify.

I heard they are changing the format a bit so as to allow others into the Joe Morgan official tree club membership society.

electing Ron Santo to the Hall of Fame would be the perfect way to finish it.

It’s criminal that Santo is not in the HOF, but I’m not holding my breath here.

Not AS criminal as the committee voting in Bowie Kuhn while leaving Marvin Miller out. It’s not like he didn’t have one of the biggest (if not the biggest) impacts on the game’s history or anything….

…should be a shoe-in. Awesome.

It’s always so sad to hear him talk about it after he’s passed over yet again.

I hope I am wrong, but the veterans committee has proven to me that they are a bunch of elitists who don’t want anyone else in their club, as is proved by the fact that they haven’t elected a single person since the new format was put into play. Until someone gets elected through this process I will continue to believe that it is a waste of time.

I dont think hell get in until he is an angel in the infield after he dies…. I mean, he is deserving, but I dont know if it will happen. On that note… if he does get inducted I will be in Cooperstown with all my Cubs gear just as I was for Rynos induction

Hopefully the Veterans Committee will get off their high horses and actually vote a deserving individual in.

for all our hopes and dreams to come true, and Ronnie’s election to the HoF is one of mine.

is that the 75% threshold to get in has remained constant and nearly every HOF member says they vote for Ron every time. Someone has to be lying and I know its not healthy to harp on about perceived slights but at the forefront of that would undoubtedly have to be Joe Morgan. Though, I’ve heard that Mike Schmidt is a little more elitist about induction than Joe, if that’s even possible.

I honestly think the voters aren’t quite sure what to do about 3B. They’re the most underrepresented group and what hurts Ron is that since his retirement there have been some remarkable 3B to come through that his accomplishments are comparatively diminished. Mike Schmidt, Wade Boggs, and George Brett came after and current players like Alex Rodriguez and Chipper Jones make Ron’s base numbers look worse than they are.

Baseball-reference equates Ron to Dale Murphy who mainly did his damage in RF & CF. So you essentially have a guy, giving you OF production while playing Gold Glove level defense at 3B in the last true pitchers era the league has seen. He played the prime of his career with the higher pitchers mound and had only three seasons with an OPS+ less than 100. His rookie year, his third year, and his final year as a 34 year old.

Every Cubs fan can make arguments for Santo, and I can probably come up with some more but more than any player in any sport, Santo is probably recognized as the biggest omission from his respective HOF and that’s a shame.

… will likely be under scrutiny if no one gets in after this go-around. The problem is that you have people voting who seemingly have a self interest in keeping the membership of their group as small as possible. I am all for having the HoF hard to get into. I frankly don’t care that much if Santo does or doesn’t get in. I just don’t know how the Hall of Fame can honestly believe that this process is fair when self interest in this all is so obvious.

DmL

I think the Cubs winning the series means more to him but how sweet it would be if he gets in right after the Cubs win it all.

I think I may get even more emotional over this than I will when we win it all.

Even my friends in Australia know about this.

This is my don’t get her started issue for me. I WANT TO LOSE IT!

if Santo is voted in.

to make it in this year. Can’t think of anybody else more deserving…

What a great addition to an already remarkable year if Ron finally got his name called.
We all know how deserving he is and it is a shame he isn’t already a member, but all would be forgiven if he were to get in this year.

explaining why Santo should get in. It should be required reading for any HOF member and sports writer.

http://mvn.com/mlb-cubs/2007/01/16/why-ron-santo-belongs-in-the-hall-of-fame-part-1/

http://mvn.com/mlb-cubs/2007/01/17/why-ron-santo-belongs-in-the-hall-of-fame-part-2/

http://mvn.com/mlb-cubs/2007/01/18/why-ron-santo-belongs-in-the-hall-of-fame-part-3/