About Building the Ballot: The Baseball Hall of Fame’s Era Committees
Hosted by Adam Darowski of Baseball Reference, Building the Ballot covers takes a deep dive into candidates for the Baseball Hall of Fame’s Era Committees. The Era Committee process replaced the old Veterans Committee process for the 2011 election. This podcast covers the Classic Baseball Era (beginning of time until 1979) and the Contemporary Baseball Era (1980 to present, split into a players ballot and a non-players ballot).
Episode 28: Classic Baseball Era Hall of Fame Ballot: Voting Project Results with Dave Metter
The calendar has changed to September. The air is cooler. The leaves are changing colors. The kids are back at school. That means it's Hall of Fame season!
This winter, the Classic Baseball Era Committee will meet to discuss candidates who made their mark on the game prior to 1980. I've been anxiously awaiting this ballot because it seems like an impossible task to distill about 140 years of baseball (players, managers, executives, umpires, and pioneers from the AL/NL, other pre-integration major leagues, the Negro Leagues, and pre-1920 Black Baseball) to an eight-person ballot.
To help wade through the candidates, I shared a ballot of 250 candidates and 312 baseball fans voted. In this episode, I discuss the results of the voting project with Dave Metter.
Follow Dave at @CooperstownDave (https://x.com/CooperstownDave)
View the Report (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bG36yABoFs8m5SbePebuBtt8UzOVQjVSZjOJqEVxW9M/edit?usp=sharing)
24 Jan 2024
Episode 27: Dave Metter on the 2024 BBWAA Election Results
Today, Adrián Beltré, Todd Helton, and Joe Mauer were elected to the Hall of Fame via the BBWAA Ballot. Dave Metter (@CooperstownDave) joins me to discuss the election results and answer listener questions.
22 Dec 2023
Episode 26: Outside the Box Hall of Fame Candidates with Mark Shirk and Justin McKinney
Today we go outside the box. Mark Shirk (@bballhist (https://twitter.com/bballhist) on Twitter) and Justin McKinney (@Just_Mckinney (https://twitter.com/Just_Mckinney) on Twitter) join me to discuss players who we believe were at or close to a Hall of Fame level, but are not on the Hall of Fame radar (for a variety of reasons. Players discussed:
Mark’s List:
Charlie Keller
Charlie Smith
Mike Scioscia
Ross Barnes
Bobby Avila
Buster Clarkson
Marvin Williams
Buzz Arlett
Justin’s List:
Jim Creighton
Cal McVey
Dave Orr
Fred Dunlap
Fleet Walker
Benny Kauff
Sadaharu Oh
Omar Linares
Adam's List
Heavy Johnson
Dobie Moore
Larry Jackson
Silvio García
Perucho Cepeda
Joe Start
Wes Ferrell
Julio Franco
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