Well, thanks... by disproving one point, you actually made the other one for me.
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1953 Election
Name Votes PCT
Dizzy Dean 209 79.17
Al Simmons 199 75.38
Bill Terry 191 72.35
Bill Dickey 179 67.80
Rabbit Maranville 164 62.12
Dazzy Vance 150 56.82
Ted Lyons 139 52.65
Joe DiMaggio 117 44.32
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Dimaggio isn't in that upper pantheon! We can't elect him on the first ballot!
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1954 Election
Name Votes PCT
Rabbit Maranville 209 82.94
Bill Dickey 202 80.16
Bill Terry 195 77.38
Joe DiMaggio 175 69.44
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We need to get Rabbit Maranville and Bill Dickey and Bill Terry in the Hall before it's too late! Joltin' Joe can wait another year!
I'll repeat a statement I began to make with another player you mentioned: if the best you can come up with are two examples of deserving players who got in their 3rd year instead of their first, then you really are showing that the exceptions prove the rule.