You know the rap – Baines is in the HOF but the Hit King and Home Run King etc are not.
I also think it’s insane that the baseball shrine is in a small town in the middle of nowhere, so once again I will vouch for The Smithsonian Museum Of Baseball. Put it in DC where all the other great museums are, and the Smithsonians are pretty good at museums.
Now that we’ve done this, we will need to create a replacement for the Hall of Fame, and to do THAT we will need a list.
Dan Twohig (@dtwohig), you know him from such things as The Queens Baseball Convention and writing like one post a year on here, made a list which I will share below.
We’d like the list to be 100. Dan riffed 30 so we need 70 more. Feel encouraged to add to this list in the comments section of this post on Mets Police Facebook. (and give us a like and share while there!)
Yes we know (insert player here) isn’t on the list. We left you 70 open slots.
Now here’s the catch with The Shrine Of The Immortals – there are only 100 spots. If you decide you want to add in Robinson Cano in a few years you will have to kick one of the 100 out! 100. Not 101. Not 99. There are 100 in the Shrine of The Immortals.
The Immortals are players. If you want to see owners, announcers and managers you can drive to the middle of nowhere upstate New York.
There are also no cutoffs on time or minimum ballots. Everyone is eligible forever.
Also I just made up that we’re not gonna have plaques we will have jerseys.
Here are the first 30 Immortals. Who do you want to add? I hear Wags wants to add J.T. Realmuto.
1. Babe Ruth
2. Hank Aaron
3. Willie Mays
4. Ty Cobb
5. Cy Young
6. Ted Williams
7. Lou Gehrig
8. Barry Bonds
9. Roger Clemens
10. Tom Seaver
11. Sandy Koufax
12. Mel Ott
13. Joe DiMaggio
14. Mickey Mantle
15. Jackie Robinson
16. Christy Mathewson
17. Yogi Berra
18. Johnny Bench
19. Honus Wagner
20. Ricky Henderson
21. Ken Griffey, Jr
22. Steve Carlton
23. Greg Maddux
24. Mike Schmidt
25. Jimmie Fox
26. Joe Morgan
27. Stan Musial
28. Bob Gibson
29. Bob Feller
30. Roberto Clemente
