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Hodges is on the final ist of eligible candidates as voted upon by ascreening
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difficultto earn election; only 1 percent of those to have worn a major
leagueuniform -- one in 100 -- have a plaque in Cooperstown. While Mr. Hodges is
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Library as an important figure in baseballhistory. The Museum has in its
collection his New York Mets jersey, thebat and ball from his 13th grand slam
(1957), his Players PopularityAward from 1957, a cartoon, an oil painting,
and extensive photo andnewsclip files.Mr. Hodges first became eligible for
induction into the NationalBaseball Hall of Fame in 1969 . According to the
Rules of Election,Mr.Hodges was eligible for consideration by the BBWAA for 15
years.During that span of time, Mr.Hodges garnered a considerable number
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User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT
5.1;FunWebProducts-MyWay; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)Date: Saturday, December
25, 2004Time: 09:58 AMComments:I was priveleged to watch Dodger games
at Ebbets Field and see GilHodges play, in addition to seeing him come home to
the Mets as a playerand then a World Champion manager. When Mr.Hodges retired,
he was thegreatest right-handed power hitter in the history of the National
Leagueas well as the NL leader in grand-slams,hitting 4 home runs in
agame(hardly done back then)and being a terrific defensive player.
Hisstatistics pale to what is happening today, but he was a consistent 100per
season RBI man and team leader. He meets the Hall's definition ofbeing a
dominant player at his position for a substantial period oftime. There were
other first basemen that might have had betterindividual seasons during this
period (e.g.Kluesewski,Adcock) but noneof these men were the consistent, overall
playeer that Gil was. Hecertainly deserves to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.






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