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  1. 07-05-2005, 03:56 PM #1
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    Best Class Of HOF

    What Is The Best HOF Class Inducted?

    I was going to make a poll but........ummmm ya.


    Mine is 1932(or whatever The first class was)





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    Definitely the first one, no question.
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    Not to be trite, but I can't see any class being better than the one from 1936: Cobb, Ruth, Wagner, Mathewson, and Johnson. It's kind of hard to to that.
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    The Amazing Was That Cobb Got The Most Votes(all due respect) There Was The Babe And The Big Train!
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    Quote Originally Posted by It's Over The Wall!
    The Amazing Was That Cobb Got The Most Votes(all due respect) There Was The Babe And The Big Train!
    Cobb was always thought to be the greatest player ever, basically through Babe Ruth's death.
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    What about other than the first one?

    I know there's a list floating around here of each year and the inductees.
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    Quote Originally Posted by digglahhh
    What about other than the first one?
    The 2nd one:

    Nap Lajoie
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    Cy Young
    Ban Johnson
    Connie Mack
    John McGraw
    Morgan Bulkeley
    George Wright
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    the first one was 1936 and cooperstown wasn't opened until 1939 so the 1936-1937-1938-1939 were inducted then - that would definitely be the best class
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    C'mon you know what I meant.
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    I was going to say the class of 99 with Yount, Brett, and Ryan, but I can't say that these three are better than the class of 82 with Robinson, and Aaron, so I say the class of 82.
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    With the retirement of Clemens, Maddux, Thomas, Bagwell, Biggio, Piazza, Johnson etc. looming, the best class may be yet to come, depending on who retires when.

    You know, best of the "normal classes."
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    I do, however, find it funny that 1937, only the second year ever of Hall inductions, found the single least essential and worst selection in Hall of Fame history... Morgan Bulkeley. Nice to know they got that out of the way quickly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ElHalo
    I do, however, find it funny that 1937, only the second year ever of Hall inductions, found the single least essential and worst selection in Hall of Fame history... Morgan Bulkeley. Nice to know they got that out of the way quickly.
    As Im sure you all know Morgan Bulkeley has the distinction of being the only Baseball HOFer to serve in the Civil War. Its amazing how short the first few years of plaques are in terms of word count, compared to nowadays when they are packed to capacity!

    I consider the first class, thats 1936, its over the wall, to be the best class ever!
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    Not that this is really in the running, but the 1972 induction class has an interesting mix of all-time greats:

    Josh Gibson
    Sandy Koufax
    Yogi Berra
    Buck Leonard
    Early Wynn
    Lefty Gomez
    Will Harridge
    Ross Youngs
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    These weren't too shabby
    1939:
    Anson
    ECollins
    Comiskey
    Cummings
    Ewing
    Gehrig
    Keeler
    Radbourn
    Sisler
    Spalding

    1945:
    Bresnahan
    Brouthers
    Clarke
    JCollins
    Delahanty
    Duffy
    Jennings
    Kelly
    O'Rourke
    WRobinson

    1946: (does have some lesser ones)
    Burkett
    Chance
    Chesbro
    Evers
    Griffith
    McCarthy
    McGinnity
    Plank
    Tinker
    Waddell
    Walsh
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