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From: jmd@mhuxl.UUCP (Joseph M. Dakes)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Billy Williams/Hall of Fame
Message-ID: <477@mhuxl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Jan-86 10:07:48 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 13 10:07:48 1986
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Keywords: 'Sey Hey' Willie Mays

> Billy Williams just missed the Hall of Fame, this time by only four votes.
> He's been on the ballot five years now.  Is is only crime that he mouthed off
> about the writers not voting him in years 3 and 4?  Or is it that he was
> magnificent on non-winning Cub teams for so many years?  Or is it that the
> voting sportswriters of the BBWA have more than 25% ignorant, narrow-minded
> morons?
> 
>       -- from the bewildered musings of Jim Brunet
> 		  "The Cubs shall rise again!"

Wasn't Willie Mays on the Hall of Fame ballot this year?  If so why didn't he
get voted in?  Was it something to do with kicking him out of baseball for 
involvment in Atlantic City casinos?  Or what?  If Willie was on the ballot
and not voted in then the Hall of Fame is a @#$%&*!

						Joseph M. Dakes
						AT&T Bell Laboratories
						Reading, PA
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