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Hall of Merit — A Look at Baseball's All-Time Best Tuesday, March 23, 2004Who’ll be the first living HoMer?Anyone want to venture as guess as to who will be: The first living HoMer? The first living HoMer that isn’t a HoFer? The latter question is very interesting to me, I’d love to be able to get in touch that player when we elect him. Just something to think about - I believe the first question was mentioned already sometime in the last couple of weeks. JoeD has the Imperial March Stuck in His Head
Posted: March 23, 2004 at 07:14 AM | 23 comment(s)
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1. MattB Posted: March 23, 2004 at 02:41 PM (#523377)Well, I believe Al Lopez is the oldest living HoFer, and at 96 will be the first if we induct him and he is still alive by then. Other old living HoFers (by earliest to retire) are Bobby Doerr (86), Bob Feller (86), Phil Rizzuto (87), George Kell (82) and Red Schoendiest (81).
Non-HoFers are difficult, because there are no real glaring omissions from the 1945-1965 era when the oldest living players generally retired. We are likely to put several of the following people on the "wait list" at some point, but it is unclear whether any will get inducted before later/younger retirees. None look like slam dunks, and some seem unlikely to get in at all: Phil Cavaretta (88), Mickey Vernon (86), Alvin Dark (82), Eddie Yost (78), Billy Pierce (77).
Colavito has certainly been vastly underrated by history, but a HoFer? We'll see. Santo certainly is a possibility. I don't think it's necessarily gonna be some old duffer. It might not happen until the 1980s or so. Other possibilities (and I'm not looking up their age or eligibility, just in random order some guys who have been underrated by history who could rate highly with us):
Bill Freehan--the second coming of Charlie Bennett, other than the fact that he still has two good legs
Was it Rusie and McGinnity who were the same age? That's an amazing story! Minoso and Kiner at least overlapped a couple-three years.
They're not. Minnie's newest autobiography states that he was born in 1926.
At the risk of being morbid, that's assuming that Santo lives long enough to be our first living non-HoF HoMer. He lost part of one leg after 2001, part of the other after 2002, & missed the play-offs with surgery last year. I'd love Santo live a long time, but the health of that life-long diabetic just ain't very good right now.
He has an excellent shot his second year of eligibility, but I'm not sure about his first year. Both Jackson and Cicotte will not be on my ballot in 1926.
I agree. They seem to be in very good health (knock on wood) and will be inducted very quickly when eligible.
Doerr, Minoso and Rizzuto will have more of a fight on their hands. Lopez will never be elected to this wing of the Hall.
I would urge everyone to start doing their homework on Double-Duty Radcliffe as soon as possible so we're all prepared when he's eligible. It would be nice to honor him while he is still around to enjoy it.
Tell him what he's won, Don!
Correct.
Some here decided against it because they felt that Feller would feel the honor was beneath him. Something like: "You elected me? Duh!" :-)
Make sure to tell him that at the end of the telegram notifying him of his election.
Old curmuddgeon!
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