And a big BOOO goes out to the Hall of Fame Veterans’ Committee, for continuing to deny entry to the best eligible player not in the Hall, Ron Santo. I attribute it to the Hall’s extreme bias against third basemen and against the Cubs - and so does this article:
Of the 212 players in the Hall, only 12 of them - including 2005 inductee Wade Boggs - are enshrined as third basemen, according to the Hall’s Web site. It’s the lowest total at any position.
3B is the only position in the Hall for which I can name almost every inductee off the top of my head. (Let’s see… Schmidt, Boggs, Brett, Eddie Mathews, Brooks Robinson, Pie Traynor, Jimmy Collins, Home Run Baker, Dandridge, Kell… dang, forgot Freddie Lindstrom and Judy Johnson.) It’s clearly a “no mistakes” position for the Hall - every single one of them deserves to be in - but Santo is definitely in that elite group.