From now on I vow never to add a player during the middle of a ballot. The spreadsheets got all wonky. I can only hope I got everyone's vote right in the end. I think I did.
Despite being forgotten on the ballot, Alexander somehow managed to pull down 95% of the vote. What a crafty veteran.
Look at that grin. That either looks like a guy who really loves cow dung or he's thrilled he netted 85% of the electorate on his first ballot.
Remaining On Ballot
Heilmann and Sisler get as close as possible without being elected, and if history is any indication, their elections will be coming soon. Coveleski takes a big jump though Wallace, on his fifth ballot, takes a step back.
Harry Heilmann: 74%
George Sisler: 74%
Stan Coveleski: 68% +9
Bobby Wallace: 63% -8
Zack Wheat: 42% -1
Sherry Magee: 37% -6
Urban Shocker: 37% +8
Eddie Cicotte: 32% +13
Red Faber: 32%
Wally Schang: 32%
Max Carey: 26% -3
Joe Sewell: 26%
Carl Mays: 21%
Eppa Rixey: 21%
Heinie Groh: 16% +2
Edd Roush: 16%
Falling Off The Ballot
With Tinker and Evers both biting the dust, that makes it an 0-fer for the Cubs famed infield. Meanwhile, Jennings and Wood both lose huge ground to get kicked off the ballot early.
Miller Huggins: 47% -1
Joe Tinker: 47% -5
Hughie Jennings: 16% -27
Jack Quinn: 16%
Smokey Joe Wood: 16% -17
Johnny Evers: 11% +1
Cy Williams: 11%
Dave Bancroft: 5%
Lu Blue: 5%
Howard Ehmke: 0%
Lee Meadows: 0%
Eddie Rommel: 0%
How can Eddie Collins not get 100%? Hornsby has only a narrow lead over Collins for the best second baseman ever and both of them are easily in front of Lajoie and Morgan. He has 124 rWAR!
Tainted by cheating? 😉
[edit] but seriously, I have no idea how one doesn't appreciate this:
The man played professional baseball for 25 years, accumulating 123.9 WAR, was AL MVP in 1914 and top-5 in MVP voting 6 times, played in the World Series 6 times, winning 4 rings and, according to JAWS, is 2nd only to Rogers Hornsby for second basemen all-time!
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I forgot to mention this was the weakest turnout for voting we've had so far. What would be helpful for people? It seems some people just forgot. Would daily reminders to vote help or be annoying? There was three weeks for the last ballot and I'm not sure more time would make a difference.
Truth be told, I've gotten a little bored with it. I like it, and that others are doing it, and I check out what others are saying, but... I'm just not as captivated as I was at first.
I'm...kind of with you there. I thought people would love to spend more time discussing baseball history and debating about old players, but that's petered out. I've also spent less time researching everyone, partly because reading 20 SABR bios is kind of overwhelming
Maybe that's a big part of it... the volume makes me feel like I've just got to give fairly cursory research to each player, and I'm not discovering anything special.
Maybe we could assign people to cover one or two people. Volunteers?
I'd be willing to participate in that kind of project.
I could do one or two, and I would try to be more timely with those than with my votes.
Summer hit and I lost track and then I had to finish something the very last lunch period before it was due the last time.
Too bad, my vote would have put Sisler over the top.
I once impersonated his son (George Jr., "Little Sisler, the Sausage Link Kid) online.
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