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Originally Posted by Johnny Slick
And if you look at all the folks voted in between '52 and '55, what they all have in common (except for Dizzy Dean) is that they're from an era prior to Joltin' Joe's.
Clearly, what the voters were saying at that time was "let's give the current players a couple years; we need to get the Dead Ball Era superstars in there while they're still alive."
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Harry Heilmann 1914-32
Paul Waner 1926-45
Rabbit Maranville 1912-35
Bill Dickey 1928-46
Bill Terry 1923-36
Al Simmons 1924-44
Joe DiMaggio 1936-51
Interesting that only two of these players spent any portion of their career during the dead ball era.
It seems even more clear that thou art grasping at straw.