A refinement on my comparison to Cooperstown which allows for the differences in eligiblity rules:
Inducted in Cooperstown at least 10 years before Best of Baseball:
Code:
Year NBBHOF Players yr in BOB
1939 Keeler, Willie 58
1939 Radbourn, Charlie 56
1939 Sisler, George 51
1946 McGinnity, Joe 70
1946 Waddell, Rube 57
1948 Traynor, Pie 60
1955 Terry, Bill... 69
1964 Faber, Red 79
Inducted into Best of Baseball at least 10 years before Cooperstown (note: Negro Leaguers don't count against Cooperstown in this accounting until 1990 to somewhat allow for the difference in rules on those players, and those that do count under this rule appear in red)
Code:
Year BOB Players yr in Coop
1937 Crawford, Sam 57
1937 Nichols, Kid 49
1938 Baker, Frank 55
1938 Connor, Roger 76
1939 Davis, George 98
1939 Hamilton, Billy 61
1939 Torriente, C 2006
1940 Clarkson, John 63
1940 Heilmann, Harry 52
1942 Keefe, Tim 64
1944 Amos Rusie 77
1944 Louis Santop 2006
1945 John M. Ward 64
1946 Turkey Stearnes 2000
1946 Mule Suttles 2006
1947 Goose Goslin 68
1950 Jud Wilson 2006
1950 Luke Appling 64
1954 Arky Vaughan 85
1955 Ray Brown.. 2006
1958 Billy Herman 75
1958 Johnny Mize 81
1960 Bid McPhee 2000
1961 Biz Mackey 2006
1962 Enos Slaughter 85
1963 Pee Wee Reese 84
1967 Hal Newhouser 92
1967 Joe Gordon 2009
1968 Bobby Doerr 1986
1968 Pete Hill..... 2006
1969 Larry Doby 1998
1972 Richie Ashburn 1995
1973 Hoyt Wilhelm 1984
1977 Jim Bunning 1995
1978 Nellie Fox 1996
Even without the Negro Leaguers, I like our choices over Cooperstown's in this measure.
I figured that since the first Negro League committee ended its work in 1977, it was reasonable to hold Cooperstown's feet to the fire on Negro Leaguers selected after 1990.
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Originally Posted by Domenic
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