Two Class Guys elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

[maveric]

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/hof07/news/story?id=2725461
Cal Ripken and Tony Gwynn will be immortalized.
Two of the classiest ballplayers ever.

[WCGreen]

1. I don't know....

Cal Ripken just seems to have earned the perfect attedance record...

I appreciate his numbers, you can't play that long without putting up some decent numbers...

But I remember so many times when the slow footed shortstop would dive toward a ball that he knew he couldn't get to in order to make it look good..

If Bert Blylevan isn't in the Hall, Cal Ripken doesn't deserve to be in there either...

[Strawman]

2. Blyleven deserves to be in and so does Jack Morris

Not many starting pitchers have gotten in recently. Blyleven had almost 280 wins and 3700 strikeouts and possibly the best curveball ever. Morris was the winningest pitcher of the 1980's and was the ace on two World Series teams. On one of those Minnesota 1991 runs he was dominant. And in 1984, he won two World Series games with the Tigers.

Too bad they didn't pitch in Boston or New York. Players from teams like Detroit, Minnesota, Cleveland get overlooked.

[wain]

3. you've got that right about the east coast

In spite of his troubles I'd put Denny Mclain before Jack Morris. Last 30 game winner (31 in 1968 with 26 more in '69). He had uncanny control, combined with speed and an unbelievable change curve in his prime. I remember a story of The Mick's last game in Briggs Stadium. In Micky Mantle's last at bat Denny called his catcher Bill Freehan to the mound and told him to tell Mick that he would groove a fastball on the next pitch. The Mick parked it in the upper deck.

[maveric]

4. Wow! So much for congrats to two great ballplayers.

Just whining about who should be in.
Gwynn and Ripken have 3000+ hits and all played 20 + years for the same team, not opting to play the free agency game.
Gwynn won EIGHT Batting Titles and has a lifetime AVG. of .338.
Ripken played all those consecutive games at ineof the toughest "skilled positions" in the game. Shortstop.

Congratulations to Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken! They both deserve to be in Cooperstown!

[Richardo]

5. Congrats to both - I'm a big Tony Gwynn fan...

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