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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Monday, August 09, 202150 years ago, Major League Baseball stumbled before inducting Satchel Paige into the Hall of Fame
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Posted: August 09, 2021 at 05:27 PM | 10 comment(s)
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1. Cblau Posted: August 09, 2021 at 09:22 PM (#6033605)In the mid-50’s the Hall made two rule changes that served to forestall the racial integration of HOF membership. Whether that was truly the intent of the rule changes is a matter of conjecture, pending the discovery of concrete evidence.
First we’ll look at Negro leagues legend Satchel Paige. After two successful seasons with Cleveland (1948-49), Paige was released by the club’s new regime, and he spent the 1950 season barnstorming. He promptly received a vote in the 1951 BBWAA election. Paige returned to MLB that season, and when he was released after the 1953 season, the HOF instituted the 5-year wait. Rather than being eligible for the 1955 election, Paige was being delayed until 1959. However, two years later the Hall put up another road block to integration of the Hall.
In 1955 Jackie Robinson was a shadow of the player he had been in his prime. He finally had won his first ring and there were rumors of his retirement after a nine-year career. At the same time, a wave of Black players had emerged as stars in 1955, including Ernie Banks, Hank Aaron, Vic Power, Al Smith and Sam Jones. At that moment, the HOF created the ten-year rule; previous to that, years played was irrelevant to HOF eligibility.
Ultimately, Jackie did return for a 10th season and was elected to the Hall in 1962, just over the line with 77.5%. But the ten-year rule kept off the ballot most of the other long-time Negro leaguers who starred in MLB: Paige, Monte Irvin, Luke Easter, Sam Jethroe, George Crowe, Joe Black, et al. The Veterans Committee followed suit and likewise refused to consider players with less than ten years in MLB.
can you explain what is meant by this sentence?
There was no entity called "Major League Baseball". There was the American League and the National League. Around 2000, they merged into a single organization, which we today call "Major League Baseball".
And the Hall of Fame has always been separate from the leagues and MLB (but that part you knew).
Bowie Kuhn, the commissioner of baseball somehow managed to not be present that day. Probably busy bilking clients at his law firm.
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