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For True Baseball Fans

Jan 23rd, 2007 at 11:15 am by PSoTD

There’s a neat little project going on over at the Book of Scrap - The Baseball Fan’s Hall of Fame Project. You actually get to vote, and only players with a 90% or higher approval rating get in. If you love baseball, and baseball history, you’ll have some fun with this.

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5 Responses to “For True Baseball Fans”

on 23 Jan 2007 at 12:06 pm1Doug

Thanks for the mention!
on 23 Jan 2007 at 1:04 pm2Izquierdo

This place may wind up with less credibility than
the Cooperstown HOF — they’ve already rejected one
of the all-time elite pitchers, Pete Alexander.
Maybe they thought he was Doyle Alexander?

Also, the stats that they list are cro-magnon in
their relationship to player value.
Hey, we’re in the 21st century, guys, and there are
now far more sophisticated analytical stats available.
on 23 Jan 2007 at 2:05 pm3PSoTD

Iz - I suspect that we’ll see a lot of lack of historical reference in the votes - we’ve seen some of that in the real-life HOF as well. Maybe the Veterans Committee of this web site can bring Alexander back around for a vote…
on 23 Jan 2007 at 3:06 pm4Doug

You never know what I will do when it’s all said and done. For now I don’t want to say anything to sway the voting.

BTW, The only stats I list are those old school stats, but I list them AFTER the voting is complete. I could list OBP, VORP, ERA+, EqA, and all the others, but what would be the point? I use a baseballreference.com link for each player while they are up for voting so it’s up to the reader to decide what matters. Anyway, it’s just for fun (there really isn’t a “Baseball Fan’s” Hall of Fame.)
on 24 Jan 2007 at 12:48 am5Izquierdo

I vote for Marvin Miller for the BBFHOF.