Baseball Hall of Fame Elections: What Does Hall Honor?

On Sunday, the Baseball Hall of Fame announced six new Hall of Famers, elected by the Golden Days Era Committee (covering the 1950s and 1960s) and the Early Baseball Era Committee (covering the years before 1950). Whether you like the results depends in good part on what exactly you think the Hall of Fame should be honoring.

To begin with, it is past time to shut the door to new enshrinees from long, long ago. Nearly all of them are long dead, and some time periods (especially the 1920s and 1930s) are already over-represented.

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On Sunday, the Baseball Hall of Fame announced six new Hall of Famers, elected by the Golden Days Era Committee (covering the 1950s and 1960s) and the Early Baseball Era Committee (covering the years before 1950). Whether you like the results depends in good part on what exactly you think the Hall of Fame should be honoring.

To begin with, it is past time to shut the door to new enshrinees from long, long ago. Nearly all of them are long dead, and some time periods (especially the 1920s and 1930s) are already over-represented.