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Original Title:	Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame
ISBN:	0684800888 (ISBN13: 9780684800882)
Edition Language:	English

Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame? Baseball, Cooperstown, and the Politics of Glory

Bill James

Paperback | Pages: 464 pages

Rating: 4.12 | 966 Users | 29 Reviews

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Picked this up on a whim at a used book sale and am damn glad I only paid a dollar. It's obviously out of date (James bites down HARD on "Pete Rose got a raw deal!" just a few years before Pete admitted to everything), but also, James, for all his rep as a SABREmetrician...offers a lot of oddly subjective criteria. There's also a big focus on players before, say, the Cobb/Ruth era, and that's just something I struggle to care about (maybe that's my failing).

On the other hand, I did enjoy the chapters on the history of Cooperstown and the Hall.

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Title	:	Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame? Baseball, Cooperstown, and the Politics of Glory
Author	:	Bill James
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 464 pages
Published	:	April 6th 1995 by Free Press (first published May 2nd 1994)
Categories	:	Sports. Baseball. Nonfiction. History

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A good look at how the Baseball Hall of Fame works and its history; also looks at who should and should not be in it and why. Interesting; though much info is now outdated still worth reading.

His best work, IMHO. His explanation of the process by which players make the HOF (as opposed to who deserves it) is eye opening. It was a revelation to discover that the sports writers almost NEVER enshrine some one undeserving... but the "old timers committee" (or it's equivalent) does so frequently.

Softcover version of the James' book "Politics of Glory," presumably to address the 1994 election of Phil Rizzuto to the HOF.

I first read this book twenty years ago. Just as entertaining a read today. James, a clever statistician, analyses the history of the baseball Hall of Fame how this peculiar institution and its voting patterns have developed and what should be done to correct them. None of which, it must be said, have been adopted. He challenges a number of players who have been voted in and answers questions about many who are frequently brought up as worthy of induction. His statistical comparison of players

Wow, I wish this book was better. Oh well, it is still Bill James. And I love him.

James may have good ideas, but he's not a good writer.

A good intro to James' sabermetric thoughts as they impact the Hall of Fame.Though he says early on that this is NOT a book about who should be in or out, it's clear that he thought Phil Rizzuto (written before his induction shouldn't be in), Dick Allen shouldn't be in, and Don Drysdale should be out, among others.And, was Sandy Koufax's late career brilliance in part not only leaving Ebbetts Field, but then leaving the L.A. Coliseum and its short left field for spacious Dodger Stadium and it's