Hall of Merit: Bruce Petway

If anyone would like to pass along some numbers or something for this intro, it’d be great.

Hall of Merit: Spottswood Poles

If anyone would like to pass along some numbers or something for this intro, it’d be great.

Hall of Merit: 1927 Results - Negro Leaguer Elected for 3rd Consecutive Year

Joe Jackson overcame his first-year boycott and Pete Hill became the 3rd Negro Leaguer elected to the Hall of Merit, joining Grant Johnson and Frank Grant.

After being left off 27 ballots in 1926 (presumably for his role in the 1919 Black Sox scandal), Jackson was only missing on 3.5 ballots for 1927, and he easily won the election with 875 points.

Hill was elected in his first year of eligibility, edging out Joe McGinnity and Bobby Wallace.

Jimmy Sheckard, Sam Thompson, Bob Caruthers, Dickey Pearce and Lip Pike finished 5-9, repeating their finish from 1926. Jake Beckley rounded out the top 10.

RK   LY  Player             PTS Bal    1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15
 1   10  Joe Jackson        875 45.5  17  7  5  3  2  2  3     1  2  1     1     1.5
 2  n/e  Pete Hill          706 45     1  9  5  1  6  3  4  6  3  1  1  1  1  1  2
 3    4  Joe McGinnity      663 43.5   4  2  6  6  5  4  2  5     1  2  2     2  2.5
 4    3  Bobby Wallace      625 36.5   6  5  3  5  6  2  1  2     3  1  1        1.5
 5    5  Jimmy Sheckard     591 37     2  5  4  5  5  7  1     2        3  1  1  1
 6    6  Sam Thompson       539 35     1  6  5  4  1  3  4     2     3  2  2  2   
 7    7  Bob Caruthers      494 33     3  5  1  2  3  3  2  1  1  2  4  1  3  2   
 8    8  Dickey Pearce      470 30     5  3  3  2  1  2  3  1  2     3  2     2  1
 9    9  Lip Pike           434 30     4  2     3  2  2  3  2  2  2  1  3  1  2  1
10   11  Jake Beckley       377 27     1     3  4  3  3  4  1  1  2  1  2     1   
11   12  George Van Haltren 354 27     1  1  2  2  2  1  2  3  2  2  1  1  4  2  2
12   13  Jimmy Ryan         322 26           3  2  1  2     3  5  3  1  2  1  2  1
13   14  Rube Waddell       278 24           1     1  3  2  2  4  2  3  2  1  1  2
14   16  Hughie Jennings    252 21     1     1  2  1  1  1  1  3  1  2     4  1  2
15   17  Clark Griffith     243 22     1  1              2  2     6  1  2  1  4  2
16   15  Roger Bresnahan    237 22              1  3        1  1  3  4  5  1  3   
17   19  Bill Monroe        222 21              1        3  4  2  1  1  3  1  1  4
18   18  Hugh Duffy         220 20                 2  3  1     2  1  4  1  3  3   
19   20  Rube Foster        192 16           1  1        2  1  4  3  2     1  1   
20   21  Mickey Welch       189 14     1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1           2  2
21   26  Larry Doyle        162 13           3  1     1  1        2     2  1  2   
22   23  Pete Browning      161 12           1  2  2  1  1     1     2  1     1   
23   22  Cupid Childs       157 15        1     1           1  1  1  2  1  5     2
24   24  Tommy Leach        142 15                    1     3     2  1  1  2  1  4
25   30  Eddie Cicotte      128 12        1           1     1  3     1        1  4
26   25  Gavy Cravath       123 12                    1  2  2     1     1  2     3
27   27  Charley Jones      114  9           1     1     1  1  2     2  1         
28   28  Ed Williamson      103 12                       1        2  1  1  1  4  2
29   29  Addie Joss          66  6.5                        1  1  2        2      .5
30   34  Fielder Jones       64  7                          1        2     3  1   
31  n/e  Ed Konetchy         61  6                       1     1  1     1  1  1   
32   33  Frank Chance        59  6                          2  1           1  1  1
33   32  John MGraw          56  4     1                       1  1     1         
34   31  Vic Willis          52  6                          1        1  1  1     2
35   37  Jim McCormick       31  4                                      2     1  1
36   36  Tommy Bond          29  2                    1  1                        
37   40  Herman Long         27  3                                1     1     1   
38   38  Lave Cross          25  2                 1                    1         
39   39  Mike Tiernan        23  3                                      1  1     1
40   42  Silver King         16  2                                   1           1
41   45T Levi Meyerle*       15  2                                         1  1   
42   41  Tom York            15  1                    1                           
43T  43  Tony Mullane         8  1                                         1      
43T  44  Ray Chapman          8  1                                         1      
45   35  Harry Wright         7  1                                            1   
46T  --  Jimmy Williams       6  1                                               1
46T  --  Johnny Evers         6  1                                               1
*won tie-breaker, ahead on individual ballots, 2-1
Dropped out: Joe Tinker (45T), Fred Dunlap (47).

Hall of Merit: 1928 Ballot Discussion

1928 (June 20)—elect 2
WS W3 Rookie Name-Pos (Died)
301 80.9 1909 Frank Baker-3b (1963)
266 66.1 1907 Clyde Milan-CF (1953)
232 68.0 1909 Donie Bush-SS (1972)
218 57.5 1909 Art Fletcher-SS (1950)
193 55.6 1909 Joe Wood-P/RF (1985)
161 41.9 1911 Burt Shotton-CF/LF (1962)
143 40.9 1909 Jimmy Austin-3B (1965)
137 33.4 1910 Jack Graney-LF (1978)

Negro Leaguers
1928 (June 20)—elect 2
HF% Career   Name-pos (born) BJ – MVP - All-Star
00% 1907-22 Sam Mongin-3B (1884) - 0 - 1*

Hall of Merit: 1927 Ballot

Sorry it’s late . . . unexpectedly out of town for a few days - pesky holidays getting in the way of important Hall of Merit business . . .

Hall of Merit: 1927 Ballotbad

Sorry it’s late . . . unexpectedly out of town for a few days - pesky holidays getting in the way of important Hall of Merit business . . .

Hall of Merit: Hall of Merit heads to Charlotte

I’m heading to Charlotte today, where I’ll be meeting up with Jeff M. for a beer before the Rush concert tonight. That should be hopefully, if we can connect in a city that is about 400 miles away for each of us . . .

Anyway, if any of you all are in the Charlotte area and

a) know somewhere that would be easy for Jeff and I to meet each other at, near the Verizon Ampitheatre

b) want to join us

Let me know, ASAP.

I’ll post my cell phone in the thread, feel free to call, but try to do it this morning if you can . . . stupid AT&T roaming is $.69 a minute once I get out of VA . . .

Hall of Merit: Negro Leaguers’ Home Page

Links to commentary on Negro League stars:

Newt Allen

Sam Bankhead

John Beckwith (elected in 1957)

Cool Papa Bell

Bob Boyd

Chet Brewer

Dave Brown

Ray Brown (elected in 1955)

Willard Brown

Bill Byrd

Pelayo Chacon

Oscar Charleston (elected in 1943)

Andy Cooper

Ray Dandridge

Leon Day

Bingo DeMoss

Martin Dihigo (elected in 1950)

John Donaldson

Luke Easter

Bobby Estalella

Rube Foster (elected 1932)

Willie Foster (elected in 1945)

Josh Gibson (elected in 1952)

Frank Grant ...

Hall of Merit: Frank Grant

Elected to the Hall of Merit in 1926, but feel free to post commentary here too.

Hall of Merit: Home Run Johnson

Elected to the Hall of Merit in 1925, but feel free to post commentary here, too.