Comments on: Baseball Legends Revealed #2 http://legendsrevealed.com/sports/2009/06/10/baseball-legends-revealed-2/ For unbelievable true sports stories and believable false ones! Sat, 05 May 2012 06:03:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Brian Cronin http://legendsrevealed.com/sports/2009/06/10/baseball-legends-revealed-2/comment-page-1/#comment-305890 Brian Cronin Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:29:12 +0000 http://legendsrevealed.com/sports/?p=514#comment-305890 Thanks, Steve, the headline of the legend was a typo, sorry about that! I fixed it. Thanks, Steve, the headline of the legend was a typo, sorry about that! I fixed it.

]]> By: Steve http://legendsrevealed.com/sports/2009/06/10/baseball-legends-revealed-2/comment-page-1/#comment-305365 Steve Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:32:56 +0000 http://legendsrevealed.com/sports/?p=514#comment-305365 Err.....a foul pop up to Munson, not a fly ball out. I guess the ball was airborne so it could be a fly ball, but you know what I mean. Err…..a foul pop up to Munson, not a fly ball out. I guess the ball was airborne so it could be a fly ball, but you know what I mean.

]]> By: Steve http://legendsrevealed.com/sports/2009/06/10/baseball-legends-revealed-2/comment-page-1/#comment-305361 Steve Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:30:05 +0000 http://legendsrevealed.com/sports/?p=514#comment-305361 In the above story about Steve Hamilton, you mention in the headline that there was a reaction to being struck out, but then the story talks about a fly ball out. In the above story about Steve Hamilton, you mention in the headline that there was a reaction to being struck out, but then the story talks about a fly ball out.

]]> By: David Markham http://legendsrevealed.com/sports/2009/06/10/baseball-legends-revealed-2/comment-page-1/#comment-177 David Markham Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:59:48 +0000 http://legendsrevealed.com/sports/?p=514#comment-177 "Bresnahan really shouldn’t be IN the Hall of Fame...He mostly made it because he was very popular among sportswriters and fans." It's the 'Hall of Fame', not the 'Hall of Great Stats'. If being popular among sportwriters and (especially) fans isn't reason enough to be in the Hall of FAME, I don't know what is. This tendency to be a stickler for numbers, as if they can tell the whole story of a player's career and impact to the fans, is why the Hall of Fame has become such a joke in recent years. Now it's all "but he's .02 lower than the lowest current member...clearly he shouldn't be in..." Bah. Really, I think the fact that Ogden Nash used him should tell *you* something about whether he deserved to be in there or not. I seriously doubt he was "stuck" for the letter 'B'. He consistantly landed near the top of the regular balloting (fifth that year), was considered by both John McGraw and Branch Rickey to be the best catcher they had ever seen and if he isn't the last catcher to steal over 200 bases in a career (it's hard to get accurate numbers from those early days), he's one of the very few. “Bresnahan really shouldn’t be IN the Hall of Fame…He mostly made it because he was very popular among sportswriters and fans.”

It’s the ‘Hall of Fame’, not the ‘Hall of Great Stats’. If being popular among sportwriters and (especially) fans isn’t reason enough to be in the Hall of FAME, I don’t know what is. This tendency to be a stickler for numbers, as if they can tell the whole story of a player’s career and impact to the fans, is why the Hall of Fame has become such a joke in recent years. Now it’s all “but he’s .02 lower than the lowest current member…clearly he shouldn’t be in…”

Bah.

Really, I think the fact that Ogden Nash used him should tell *you* something about whether he deserved to be in there or not. I seriously doubt he was “stuck” for the letter ‘B’.

He consistantly landed near the top of the regular balloting (fifth that year), was considered by both John McGraw and Branch Rickey to be the best catcher they had ever seen and if he isn’t the last catcher to steal over 200 bases in a career (it’s hard to get accurate numbers from those early days), he’s one of the very few.

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