SHUTOUT! Veteran’s Committee fails to elect anyone to the Hall of Fame


NASHVILLE — The Veteran’s Committee has voted and the announcement is in: no member of the Veteran’s Committee Pre-Integration ballot made the cut. The only inductees next summer will be living, breathing folks elected by the BBWAA.

The candidates were Doc Adams, Sam Breadon, Bill Dahlen, Wes Ferrell, Garry Herrmann, Marty Marion, Frank McCormick, Harry Stovey, Chris von der Ahe and Bucky Walters are the candidates for Pre-Integration Era Committee consideration for Hall of Fame election. Here is a brief overview of the credentials of all of the candidates.

It’s worth noting that being on the Veterans Committee ballot means that, at some point, the baseball writers or past veterans committees considered their candidacies and found them lacking. So none of these oversight are so egregious that anyone should take up arms about it.

Still it is odd that a process that is designed to take a new fresh look at players and executives frequently doesn’t elect new Hall members. One has to ask why they bother continuing to look back at this era given how well it has been gone over and how unlikely it is that anyone from this era will eventually be elected.