Congrats To The 2009 National Baseball Hall of Fame Class

[UNHWildCats]

James Edward Rice

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Rickey Henley Henderson

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Joseph Lowell Gordon

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[UMass922]

Looking ahead to next year:


Players eligible for the first time (with All-Stars marked with an *) are: Paul Abbott, Roberto Alomar*, Kevin Appier*, Andy Ashby*, Danny Bautista, Brian Boehringer, Darren Bragg, Dave Burba, Ellis Burks*, Greg Colbrunn, Mike Fetters, Brook Fordyce, Andrés Galarraga*, Karim Garcia, Tom Goodwin, Ricky Gutierrez, Jimmy Haynes, Pat Hentgen*, Sterling Hitchcock, Mike Jackson, Eric Karros, Ray Lankford*, Barry Larkin*, Curt Leskanic, Josias Manzanillo, Edgar Martinez*, Brent Mayne, Fred McGriff*, Mark McLemore, Shane Reynolds*, David Segui, Scott Service, Chris Stynes, Scott Sullivan, Todd Van Poppel, John Vander Wal, Robin Ventura*, Fernando Viña*, Turk Wendell and Todd Zeile.

The returning players on the ballot are: Andre Dawson, Bert Blyleven, Lee Smith, Jack Morris, Tim Raines, Mark McGwire, Alan Trammell, Dave Parker, Don Mattingly, Dale Murphy, and Harold Baines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_Hall_of_Fame_balloting,_2010

[JoltinJoe]

Todd Van Poppel? Wait a minute. Isn't he still a phenom just waiting to have his break-out year?

[UMass922]

Todd Van Poppel? Wait a minute. Isn't he still a phenom just waiting to have his break-out year?

I'm sure there's some alternate universe where Van Poppel, Ben McDonald, and Brien Taylor will be going into the Hall of Fame together.

[OSBF]

Blyleven, Smith, and Baines deserve to be there. I'm on the fence with dawson and Parker.

[Lehigh Football Nation]

Congrats to Jim Rice, whose HOF induction was a long, long, long, long, long time coming.

And I'd like to mention the five names in next year's HOF class that simply make me cry laughing:

Dave Burba
Turk Wendell
Curt "The Mechanic" Leskanic
John Vanderwal
Darren Bragg

And, really, Karim Garcia? If he were arrested in the Dominican Republic with a suitcase full of Andro I wouldn't even bat an eyelash.

[UMass922]

Of the returnees, I'd vote for Blyleven and Tim Raines. Of the new guys, I'd vote for Alomar, Larkin, Edgar Martinez, and Fred McGriff.

[OL FU]

Rice, from Anderson South Carolinaxthumbsupx

[gmoney55]

The only guys I'd vote for on that list are Andre Dawson, Tim Raines and Robbie Alomar.

[Gil Dobie]

I'd vote in a huge class

Blyleven, Dawson, Parker, Smith, Raines, Morris and Barry Larkin xthumbsupx