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From: jjc@houxa.UUCP (J.CARBONARO)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Hall of Fame
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Date: Thu, 2-Jan-86 13:12:39 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  2 13:12:39 1986
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<There's been a lot of nettalk about what makes a player worthy of
<being in the Hall of Fame: single season stats or lifetime consistency?
<
<Art Rust, a radio talk show host in New York, suggested the better criteria was
<dominance.  The selections seemed, to him, to be players who dominated their
<era.  For example, Sandy Koufax had a relatively short career but was virtually
<unbeatable for a few years.  Roberto Clemente, tragically, fit the same mold.
<
<By that standard, Maris gets in--easy.  But I bet he won't make it because
<the Baseball Writers Association wouldn't honor a man they tried to destroy.
<
<Well netters, what do you say?

Just this - why do you think Clemente had a "relatively short career"?  He
played long enough to get 3,000 hits!