[Red Badger]

You mean Pete Rose didn't make it again?.............

[bikepacker67]

Louis Tiant and Jim Rice get STIFFED again...

[My2Cents]

Plenty of nominees to the Hall of Shame, however.

[ElkGroveDan]

That headline is another one of those "Life Imitates The Onion" stories.

[Lucky2]

It's hard to believe Roger Maris has so few votes. People now don't know what a great player he was as well as a class act of a person. Try to rent "61" and you'll realize how great Roger Maris was!

[dennis1x]

title slightly misleading, some were elected to the HOF this year, just not from the separate old timers list.

[Captain Peter Blood]

This Veterans Committee really stinks. Amazing the great players not in the Hall of Fame. I just found out recently that Roger Maris isn't even in the Hall of Fame.
I had read that Maris was never really a favorite of the sports writers and that was one of the big reasons he wasn't voted in many years ago. Now when I see a player of the likes of Gil Hodges and others not in I wonder if they should not overhaul the entire way players get into the Hall of Fame to at least give some of these great players a real chance of getting in. It's just like a lot of things, very subjective.

[Jagman]

I love it. Baseball has finally become so elite that no players can get into the HoF!

[henkster]

I got no beef with this. The HOF shouldn't induct people every year "just because" kind of like the NFL does.

While I think many of the guys who fell short this year were really good players, none of them make me forget:

Carlton
Seaver
Ryan
Gibson
Koufax
Feller
Johnson
Spann
Alexander
Cobb
Greenberg
Aaron
Mays
Musial
Ruth
Gehrig
Jackson (Reggie, not shoeless)
Foxx
Williams
DiMaggio (Joe, not Dom)
Carew
Clemente

Just a few names that popped into my head.

I'm all for high standards at the Hall of Fame.

[kellynla]

Hard to believe that Maris & Hodges aren't in the Hall???

Hodges

18 years in the Majors, with Brooklyn, Los Angeles and New York.
- Hit at least 30 home runs in six years, including five years in a row from 1950 to 1954
- During those years, he hit 40 or more home runs twice
- Had over 100 RBIs each season from 1949 to 1955
- Hit 370 career home runs
- Had a career batting average of .273
- Had a career slugging average of .487
- Played in seven World Series

and
Maris:

12 years in the Majors
Set Baseball's Single Season Home Run Record (61 in 1961)
- 275 Career Home Runs
- Two-time Most Valuable Player in American League (1960 & 1961)
- Led American League in RBI's (1960 & 1961)
- Gold Glove Award Winner (1960)
- Seven World Series (1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1968)
- Six World Series Home Runs

all this with noooooo steroids!!!

[b4its2late]

Truth be told......They probably don't have anymore room in the Hall for those plaques and are hoping to get some sort of government grant to expand the Hall... ;-)

[laceybrookesdad]

Can't believe Ron Santo missed it again! He has numbers that rank him among the best third basemen of all time. He ranks in the top 100 all time in HR's, RBI's, total bases, walks, sacrifice flies. He won 5 straight gold glove awards from 1964 through 1968. He played in 9 All Star games. And can you believe he played with type 2 diabetes his entire career and nobody knew it. Sad state of affairs! I hope he makes it in while he is still alive.