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Originally Posted by PilotMan
I've never thought to myself....Harold Baines is a Hall of Famer. Nope.
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I distinctly remember there was some panic setting in with sportswriters in the late 90s and early 2000s because Baines was approaching 3,000 hits and that means automatic induction into the HoF in everyone's eyes. The problem was Baines obviously wasn't a HoF caliber player and this was going to cause of HoF crisis of sorts.
They never seemed to realize or acknowledge you simply had to not vote for him if you didn't think he was a HoF caliber player. 3,000 hits or not.