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BTRTN Considers the "Classic Baseball Era" Candidates for the MLB Hall of Fame
"Each year at this time we at BTRTN turn our attention away from politics and towards the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame selection process. We rather immodestly claim that we are the very best forecasters of which players will achieve lasting baseball immortality. This is admittedly an exceedingly narrow niche; so narrow, in fact, that we may be its only members.We will soon unveil our predictions for those candidates on the annual Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) ballot, the results of which will be announced on January 21, 2025. Today, we focus our attention on the not-quite-annual selections made by what used to be known as the “Veteran’s Committee,” which would seek to redress potential oversights of worthy players by the BBWAA. The Veteran’s Committee has morphed into a set of different committees that consider different eras, rather than the whole pool of no-longer-eligible players, in different years. This year it is the Classic Baseball Era committee that is meeting on Sunday, December 8 (tomorrow) to deliberate and decide. The Classic Baseball Era is defined, for this purpose, as the period prior to 1980, including Negro Leagues and pre-Negro League stars...."https://borntorunthenumbers.com/2024/12/07/btrtn-considers-the-classic-baseball-era-candidates-for-the-mlb-hall-of-fame/