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Ron Santo Is Not A Hall Of Famer

Feb 27, 2007 – 3:27 PM
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Tom Fornelli

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That's not my opinion, it's a fact, as Ron Santo once again came up short of being elected to the MLB Hall of Fame. He missed by only 5 votes.

Ron Santo inched a little closer to Cooperstown on Tuesday, but came up five votes short of baseball immortality.

Voting by the Veterans Committee for the National Baseball Hall of Fame resulted in another shutout, as none of the candidates on the players or composite ballots received the 75-percent plurality required for election.

Now whether or not Ron Santo deserves to be in the Hall of Fame, I don't know. I never saw him play baseball, and know him only as the crazy guy in the Cubs radio booth.


What I do know is that the Veterans Committee is absolutely pointless. They have yet to elect a single player to the Hall of Fame in their 5 years of voting. The committee is made up of Hall of Famers, Ford C. Frick Award winners for broadcasting and J.G. Taylor Spink Award winners for writing to total 84 voters, all of whom are angry old codgers who will never elect anyone for anything.
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