Hall of Merit: 1902 Results - Dan Brouthers and Buck Ewing elected

Dan Brouthers and Buck Ewing have been elected to the Hall of Merit. Brouthers was the most overwhelming selection to date, garnering 39 of 42 first place votes, and is the first unanimous selection, in that he was named first or second on all ballots.

Ewing (752.5) edged Jack Glasscock (704) and Charles Radbourn (658) in the balloting. It was the 2nd consecutive near miss for Glasscock who lost to George Wright by 21 points in the 1901 voting. With Cap Anson and Roger Connor coming on the ballot in 1903, it’s likely Glasscock will have to wait until 1904 for enshrinement.

Hardy Richardson and Ezra Sutton were #5 and #6 for the second straight year. Joe Start made a run, jumping from 9th to 7th. He was tied for 7th with Al Spalding and won the tie-breaker 21-20 (higher placement on individual ballots). Start also jumped over Harry Stovey, who slipped to 11th, dropping from 50% of the possible points to 43%. Sam Thompson finished 9th in his first year of eligibility, and Pud Galvin jumped over Stovey and Bob Caruthers (who slipped to 13th), rounding out the top 10.

RK  LY  Player       Pts   Ballots  1  2  3   4   5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15
1  n/e  D.Brouthers 1005    42.0   39  3
2  n/e  B.Ewing      752.5  42.0      12  9 6.5 7.5  2  2  1                 1  1
3    3  J.Glasscock  704    42.0       7 11   7   4  2  3  2  1  4        1
4    4  C.Radbourn   658    41.0    3  4  7   5   4  3  5  3  1	2     2     1  1
5    5  H.Richardson 525    40.0       1  1       7  6  5  4  4  5  1  2  1  3
6    6  E.Sutton     510.5  37.0       2  2 7.5 3.5  3  4  2  3  1  1  2  2  3  1
7    9  J.Start*     495    36.0       5  2   3   1  4  2  3  4  2  2  2  2  2  2
8    7  A.Spalding   495    36.0       4  4   3   2  4  4  1  1  2  1  2  3  3  2
9  n/e  S.Thompson   457    39.5       1      3   2  4     5  2  5  6  1  6  3  1.5
10  11  P.Galvin     440    35.0          2   5   3  2  1  4  2  3  7  2  2  2
11   8  H.Stovey     433    36.0       1  3          4  4  4  2  7  3  2     3  3
12  12  C.Bennett    374    34.0              1   1  2  4  4  3  5  3  1  6  1  3
13  10  B.Caruthers  313    25.0       2  1       4     1  4  4     2  2  1  1  3
14  14  C.McVey      302    27.5                  2  3  3  1  4  1  4  3  2  1  3.5
15  13  P.Browning   244    25.0              1      1  1     3  2  2  8  2  2  3
16  15  E.Williamson 151    18.0                           1  1  1     4  4  5  2
17  16  L.Pike       133    15.0                           1  2     3  3     3  3
18  17  M.Welch      127    14.0                           1  1     3  4  2  2  1
19  20  D.Pearce      72     8.0                        1     1     1  1  1  1  2
20  18  J.McCormick   71     7.0                        1  1     1  1  1  1     1
21  19  F.Dunlap      59     8.0                              1           2  1  4
22  21  T.Mullane     42     4.0                     1           1        2
23  22  T.O'Neill     39     3.0                  1  1                    1
24 n/e  G.Stovey      33     5.0                                          1  1  3
25  26  J.Whitney     26     2.0                        1     1
26  24  C.Jones       13     2.0                                             1  1
27  25  D.Foutz       12     1.0                              1
28T 28  B.Hutchison   10     1.0                                    1
29T 29  L.Meyerle     10     1.0                                    1
30T 27  B.Mathews      7     1.0                                             1
30T 31T	T.York         7     1.0                                             1
32  --  T.McCarthy     6     1.0                                                1
Dropped out: Arlie Latham (23); Harry Wright (30); Dave Orr (31T); Oyster Burns (33).
*won tie-breaker, 21-20.

Hall of Merit: 1903 Ballot Discussion

I’ve sent an email to the list explaining why I’m late, if someone can post the newly eligible list in the discussion here, that’d be great too. I figure there’s no point waiting to get this going though . . .

I should have the 1902 final result up in the next few hours.

Hall of Merit: 1902 Ballot

After our most active week of discussion yet . . . let the games begin!

Hall of Merit: 1902 Ballot Discussion

Here you go fellas, this list is from Howie Menkel, I don’t have time for links, double-checking it, etc. right now, but I wanted to get the thread started without further delay . . . Here are the new eligibles, quite a class.

DAN BROUTHERS,1896,1904 -> 2
BUCK EWING,1896,1897 -> 1
SHORTY FULLER,1896
CONNIE MACK,1896
TOMMY MCCARTHY,1896
CHIPPY MCGARR,1896
DOGGIE MILLER,1896
SAM THOMPSON,1896,1897 -> 3,1898 -> 14,1906 -> 8
AD GUMBERT,1896
ADONIS TERRY,1896,1897 -> 1
GEORGE STOVEY,Negro Leagues

Hall of Merit: 1901 Results - Tim Keefe & George Wright elected

In the narrowest voting to date, Tim Keefe and George Wright have been election to the Hall of Merit for 1901, narrowly edging first time eligible Jack Glasscock. Keefe finished with 657 points 17 more than Wright, despite the fact that Wright was named first on 10 ballots and Keefe just five. The 2.5 voters that left Wright off helped to keep the election close, as Wright only edged Glasscock (4 firsts, 6 seconds) by 21 points.

The previous order held for the 4th through 9th place finishers (Radbourn, Richardson, Sutton, Spalding, Stovey, Start each moved up one place). Bob Caruthers and Pud Galvin both jumped over Charlie Bennett, who dropped from 11th to 12th. Pete Browning finished 13th, after him there’s a big dropoff down to Cal McVey in 14th place. Tony Mullane was the only player who dropped significantly, from 18th to 21st place, and from 9 ballots to 5.5.

We had 35 voters for the 2nd election in a row, no new voters this time, one established voter skipped out for the 2nd straight week, although it was a different voter this time.

RK   LY Player       Pts Ballots  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15
 1    3 T.Keefe      657  35.0    5 10  6  2  2  4  1  1  3     1
 2    4 G.Wright     640  32.5   10  6  6  4  3        1     2              0.5
 3  n/a J.Glasscock  619  35.0    4  6  4  5  4  4  4  1  2  1
 4    5 C.Radbourn   555  34.0    4  3  4  7  3  2  2     3  3  1     1     1
 5    6 H.Richardson 485  34.0       2  2  3  3  4  6  4  5  2  1  1     1
 6    7 E.Sutton     469  32.0    2  1  4  5  4  4     2  2  1     3  2  1  1
 7    8 A.Spalding   450  30.0    5  2  2  1  2  1  2  2  4  1  4  1  2     1
 8    9 H.Stovey     420  32.5    3        1  2  2  6  4  2  3  2  2  2  1  2.5
 9   10 J.Start      414  29.0       4  3  1  4     3  5  1  1  2  1  1  2  1
10   12 B.Caruthers  355  30.0    2        3  2  2  1  2  2  3  1  3  2  2  5
11   13 P.Galvin     347  28.5       1  2  1  2  3  1  4     3  3  3  2  1  2.5
12   11 C.Bennett    303  28.0          1  1  1  1  3  2  2  3  3  2  3  4  2
13   14 P.Browning   295  28.0             1     3  1  2  2  3  5  5  1  3  2
14   15 C.McVey      237  21.0                3  2  2  1  3  1  1  2  2  3  1
15   16 E.Williamson 173  18.0                      2  1     1  3  5  4  2
16   17 L.Pike       120  13.0                            1  4  2  1  1  3  1
17   19 M.Welch      102  12.0                            1  2  1  1  2  3  2
18   21 J.McCormick   65   7.0                      1     1     1  1  1     2
19   20 F.Dunlap      63   8.0                               1     1  3  1  2
20   22 D.Pearce      55   6.0                   1              1  1  1  1  1
21   18 T.Mullane     54   5.5                         2           2     1  0.5
22   23 T.O'Neill     37   3.0          1              1                    1
23  n/a A.Latham      36   5.0                                  1        2  2
24   24 C.Jones       32   4.0                                  1     2     1
25  n/a D.Foutz       28   3.0                   1                       1  1
26   25 J.Whitney     27   2.0                   1        1
27   28 B.Mathews     16   2.0                                        2
28  n/a B.Hutchison   13   2.0                                           1  1
29  29T L.Meyerle     10   1.0                                  1
30  26T H.Wright       8   1.0                                        1
31T 26T T.York         7   1.0                                           1
31T 29T D.Orr          7   1.0                                           1
33  n/a O.Burns        6   1.0                                              1
Dropped out: Jim Creighton (29T), Curt Welch (32)

Hall of Merit: 1901 Ballot

Let the games begin!

Hall of Merit: 1901 election discussion

I don’t have time to list the newly eligible players (I’m in Pittsburgh for a training class this week), but I figured I can start the thread at least. If someone wants to list the newbies with links to their BR pages that would be great. I should still be able to check in around lunch time and after the Pirate games at night.

Hall of Merit: 1900 Results - John Clarkson and John Ward elected

John Clarkson and John Ward have been elected to the Hall of Merit in balloting for the 1900 election. Clarkson was easily elected, receiving 19 of 35 first place votes and 756 points. Ward finished with 617 points, edging Tim Keefe (582) and George Wright (580). Wright was actually named first or second on 11 ballots, Ward 10, but Ward had deeper support, being named no lower than 10th on every ballot. Wright was left off of 1.5 ballots completely.

Pud Galvin made the biggest jump, from 16th to 13th. He received 19% of the potential points in 1899, 34% this year.

Harry Stovey and Tip O’Neill experienced the biggest drops. Stovey fell from 5th to 9th, he lost 38 points in the voting despite 4 more people casting votes. O’Neill has fallen from 14th to 18th to 23rd. He was named 13 ballots in 1898, 7 in 1899 and just 4 in 1900.

30 of 31 voters from 1899 returned for 1900, and we added 5 new voters.

The Boston Beaneaters and Chicago Orphans will play the Hall of Merit Game in 1900. In 1900, these are the only two original teams remaining from the NL’s inaugural season of 1876. Boston is led by 3B Jimmy Collins, CF Billy Hamilton, pitchers Bill Dinneen, Vic Willis and Kid Nichols. Chicago’s stars include 2B Cupid Childs, OF Jimmy Ryan and pitchers Ned Garvin and Clark Griffith.

RK  LY  Player          Pts Ballots 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15
 1 n/a  J.Clarkson      756  35.0  19  5  4  3  3     1
 2 n/a  J.Ward          617  35.0   3  7  6  5  3  1  3  3  3  1
 3   4  T.Keefe         582  35.0   1  5  6  7  3  5  2     1  4     1
 4   3  G.Wright        580  33.5   4  7  2  4  6  3  2     1     2  1        1.5
 5   6  C.Radbourn      484  32.0   3  1  3  2  6  4  2  4     1  3  2        1
 6   7  H.Richardson    452  33.0      2  3  1  1  3  7  4  3  4  1  2	2
 7   8  E.Sutton        441  31.0   1  2  4  3  2  5  1  3  1  3     1  1  2  2
 8   9  A.Spalding      403  30.0   2  2  1  2  3  3     1  3  4  1  3  1  2  2
 9   5  H.Stovey        382  30.0   1     3     1  3  6  3  2  2  3  1     5
10  10  J.Start         378  28.0      2  1  3  2  2  3  4  3  1  3  1     3
11  12  C.Bennett       287  26.0      1  1  1     2     2  3  2  4  1  5  2  2
12  11  B.Caruthers*    284  23.0   1  1     2     1  2  3  2  2  2  3  2     2
13  16  P.Galvin        284  26.0            2        3  3  2  2  6  2  4  1  1
14  13  P.Browning      256  26.0               2     1  1  1  3  5  3  6  3  1
15  15  C.McVey         193  17.0               2  2  1  1  3  2  1  2        3
16  14  E.Williamson    182  21.0                     1  1  2  1  1  3  3  5  4
17  17  L.Pike           96  11.0                           1  1  1  2  4  1  1
18 n/a  T.Mullane        83   9.0         1                 1        2  1  3  1
19  20  M.Welch          79  10.0                           1     2  1     2  4
20  19  F.Dunlap         49   6.0                           1           3  1  1
21  21  J.McCormick      46   5.0	                 1     1        2     1
22  22  D.Pearce         45   5.0                  1                 2        2
23  18  T.O'Neill        41   4.0               1           1              1  1
24  23  C.Jones          35   5.0                                       1  3  1
25  24  J.Whitney        24   2.0                        1     1
26T 25  T.York            9   1.0                                    1
26T --  H.Wright          9   1.0                                    1
28  27  B.Mathews         7   1.0                                          1
29T --  L.Meyerle         6   1.0                                             1
29T --  J.Creighton       6   1.0                                             1
29T 29  D.Orr             6   1.0                                             1
32  --  C.Welch           3   0.5                                             0.5
* wins tiebreaker, named higher than Galvin on more individual ballots.
Dropped out: Henry Larkin (26), Tommy Bond (28)

Hall of Merit: 1900 Ballot

After an excellent week of discussion, let the balloting for 1900 begin . . .

Hall of Merit: Pitchers

On this thread, I’ll put the adjusted W-L records for each pitcher who has received a vote, or is likely to in 1900.

I’ll describe the methods as well, although I might not get to this until later, see the 1900 newbies thread for an explanation until I can put it here.