Ron Santo Denied Baseball Hall Of Fame

A former second Baseman Joe Gordon
was elected to the Hall of Fame by the
Veterans Committee on Monday, while
another team to join, including Joe Torre,
Ron Santo and Gil Hodges.

Gordon, the nine-time All Star and five-time
World Series winnersfrom the New York
Yankees and Cleveland Indians have been
seized from the 12 members of the committee
that examined the only players who started
before 1943.

But a pane l of 64 living Hall of Famers did
not select someone who began his career
after World War II. She was 75 percent in the
election, and none came close, St. received
61 percent and then Jim Kaat, Tony Oliva,
Hodges and Torre.

"When the Board has the restructuring of the veterans after the 2007 elections, did so in
order to ensure that voters living in the Hall of Famers would be to their peers," Hall said chairman JaneForbes Clark. "The process has not been modified to select a person is not necessarily".

The results were published in the baseball winter meetings in Las Vegas.

Gordon got 10 votes more than needed and joined the team in some recent Hall. He began
his career with Lou Gehrig, Joe Di Maggio, Bill Dickey and other stars on the 1938 Yankees,
a team that won the World Series, and finished with Bob Feller and more lighting Cleveland
in 1950.

Gordon was the 1942 AL MVP award and, 268 out of a total of 253 home runs and 975 rbis,
big power numbers for second basemen at the time.