{"id":135341,"date":"2024-12-10T05:52:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T22:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=135341"},"modified":"2024-12-10T05:52:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T22:52:05","slug":"dick-allen-and-dave-parker-hall-of-famers-at-long-last-what-we-learned-from-their-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=135341","title":{"rendered":"Dick Allen and Dave Parker, Hall of Famers at long last: What we learned from their election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>There is something so fitting about the thought of the Hall of Fame plaques of Dick Allen and Dave Parker hanging side by side forever in the plaque gallery in Cooperstown, N.Y.<\/p>\n<p>They were towering figures from a very different time. They looked and felt like giants as they filled up the batter\u2019s boxes of America \u2026 wheeling their mammoth Louisville Sluggers \u2026 terrifying pitchers from coast to coast \u2026 putting up breathtaking numbers \u2026 each of them collecting MVP trophies in the ancient baseball times of the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>So think how hard it is to lose sight of men like that. But somehow, we did. Their wait for that Hall of Fame moment went on for years, for decades \u2014 until finally, the Classic Baseball Era Committee held an election Sunday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/5979358\/2024\/12\/08\/dick-allen-dave-parker-baseball-hall-of-fame\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that will send those two forgotten giants to Cooperstown<\/a> next July.<\/p>\n<p>What took so long? That was the question that echoed through the night, along with so many powerful emotions. So let\u2019s dig into that \u2014 and discuss \u2026<\/p>\n<h2>What we learned from the Classic Era Committee election<\/h2>\n<h3><strong>1. Dick Allen: There <em>is<\/em> crying in baseball\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_5980646\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5980646 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/athletic\/uploads\/wp\/2024\/12\/09040113\/AP20342739454457-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/athletic\/uploads\/wp\/2024\/12\/09040113\/AP20342739454457-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/athletic\/uploads\/wp\/2024\/12\/09040113\/AP20342739454457-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/athletic\/uploads\/wp\/2024\/12\/09040113\/AP20342739454457-1024x806.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/athletic\/uploads\/wp\/2024\/12\/09040113\/AP20342739454457-1536x1209.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/athletic\/uploads\/wp\/2024\/12\/09040113\/AP20342739454457-2048x1612.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-credits\">\n<div class=\"inline-credits-container\">\n      <span class=\"table-cell-span\"\/><br \/>\n      <span class=\"credits-text\">Dick Allen was the 1964 NL Rookie of the Year. (Associated Press)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>With all due respect to Dave Parker, I\u2019m going to begin this column writing about Dick Allen, because for me, his election is personal. He changed my life. I often wonder if I would have become a baseball writer if it weren\u2019t for Dick Allen.<\/p>\n<p>When I was a kid growing up in Philadelphia, he wasn\u2019t just my favorite player. He was my <em>first<\/em> favorite player. I wasn\u2019t alone. He made me a baseball fan. He turned my friends into baseball fans. He did things we didn\u2019t know humans could do. He hit transcontinental long balls we didn\u2019t know humans could hit.<\/p>\n<p>So the news of Allen\u2019s long-overdue election to the Hall of Fame was as thrilling as it was heart-tugging. You could hear it in the sobs of joy that overcame John Middleton, the <a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"113\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/mlb\/team\/phillies\/\">Phillies\u2019<\/a> managing general partner, as he tried to put Allen\u2019s triumph into words Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>When his phone rang with the news, \u201cI started crying,\u201d Middleton said, the tears flowing again. \u201cThe only words that came out were, \u2018Oh my God, I can\u2019t believe it.\u2019 I could hardly talk. I never thought this moment would actually occur. I don\u2019t know if there are words for that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe there\u2019s some great poet who could put those feelings into words,\u201d Middleton went on, his voice cracking. \u201cBut for me, it\u2019s just a wave of emotion. And every time I talk about it, I just get emotional again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That emotion springs from a very real place. It springs from the sadness that Allen didn\u2019t live to celebrate this moment. He died, at age 78, on Dec. 7, 2020 \u2014 the very day that, if it weren\u2019t for the pandemic, a previous version of the Veterans Committee might have been meeting to elect him.<\/p>\n<p>But that emotion also springs from how close he\u2019d come to election \u2014 two times. He is believed to be the only player ever to miss by one vote twice.<\/p>\n<p>The first time was 10 years ago, when he was still very much alive and well. The second time was three Decembers ago, when the Golden Era Committee gathered a year after his death and elected Gil Hodges, Tony Oliva, Jim Kaat and Minnie Mi\u00f1oso \u2026 but ran out of votes for Dick Allen.<\/p>\n<p>So the closest Allen came to feeling this kind of joy and validation came on Sept. 3, 2020, when Middleton and the Phillies did something they\u2019d never before done for a player who was not a Hall of Famer: They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/2043311\/2020\/09\/03\/ahead-of-their-time-dick-allen-and-the-philly-sportswriter-who-asked-why-in-69\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retired Dick Allen\u2019s number<\/a>, in a moving pregame ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019d hoped it would be a prelude to his Induction Day. Instead, as his close friend, filmmaker Mike Tollin, would put it, \u201cthat was Dick\u2019s Cooperstown moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe joy of what we did in September of 2020 was because he was there,\u201d Middleton said, \u201cand he could experience it, and he could see and feel the adulation, and the respect, and the love, and the warmth of that moment \u2026 and to be able to just bask in it and revel in it and enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great moment,\u201d Middleton said. \u201cBut it\u2019s a moment without him. And that makes it different \u2014 for us, for me, for his family, for Mike, for all of us. Everybody has different beliefs, but I believe in heaven. So there\u2019s a part of me that believes that Dick knows what happened today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/2245972\/2020\/12\/07\/stark-remembering-the-greatness-of-dick-allen-and-what-might-have-been\/\" class=\"go-deeper\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"go-deeper\">\n<div class=\"go-deeper-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.theathletic.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=128,height=128,fit=cover,format=auto\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/03200158\/GettyImages-56607302-1-scaled-e1599177814737-1024x721.jpg\" class=\"go-deeper\" alt=\"go-deeper\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"go-deeper-label\">GO DEEPER<\/p>\n<p class=\"go-deeper-title\">The greatness of Dick Allen, and what might have been<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>2. A Hall of Famer for these times, not those times\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>On so many levels, it makes no sense that a man could go 47 years without a hit and only then get elected to the Hall of Fame. But welcome to modern Hall of Fame voting. It\u2019s always something. But in Dick Allen\u2019s case, I think there\u2019s actually a logical explanation.<\/p>\n<p>In his time, we didn\u2019t have the tools that we have now to measure the greatness of players like him. So how <em>did<\/em> we measure it? We did what folks had done for a century.<\/p>\n<p>We counted.<\/p>\n<p>Just not high enough.<\/p>\n<p>If the definition of \u201cHall of Fame slugger\u201d was 500 homers, Dick Allen was not your man. If the definition of \u201cHall of Fame hit machine\u201d was 3,000 hits, he wasn\u2019t even close.<\/p>\n<p>His 351st and final homer came on May 17, 1977 \u2014 a ridiculous 17,372 days before he got elected. His 1,848th and final hit came five weeks later, on June 19, 1977. That was 17,339 days ago.<\/p>\n<p>So for all those days, all those years, his numbers were stuck in time. Who knew that they were merely stuck in his time, not ours.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, back here in our time, we\u2019re so much better at this. So maybe Allen never changed. But luckily for him, we did. And when we looked at him again, through the measuring sticks we now use every day, it\u2019s amazing how his true greatness came into focus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s just something about OPS,\u201d Tollin said. \u201cOPS changed everything. OPS was the catch-all. OPS+ was really the catch-all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Right! Just look at Allen\u2019s career through the prism of OPS \u2014which combines a player\u2019s on base percentage and slugging percentage. Then factor in OPS+ \u2014 which adjusts his OPS for ballpark factors and stacks it up against the era he played in. Do that, and you see exactly why Dick Allen is now a Hall of Famer.<\/p>\n<p>You merely have to size up how Allen compared with the Best of the Best during his 11-year peak, from 1964-74 \u2014 and there\u2019s no longer much to debate:<\/p>\n<p><strong>OPS+, 1964-74<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Dick Allen 165<br \/>2. Willie McCovey 161<br \/>3. Henry Aaron 159<br \/>4. Frank Robinson 159<\/p>\n<p><strong>OPS, 1964-74<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Henry Aaron .941<br \/>2. Dick Allen .940<br \/>3. Willie McCovey .937<\/p>\n<p><strong>SLUGGING PCT, 1964-74<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Henry Aaron .561<br \/>2. Dick Allen .554<br \/>3. Willie McCovey .541<br \/>4. Willie Stargell .541<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all legends \u2026 and him, all Hall of Famers \u2026 and him. And now he\u2019s one of them, because it\u2019s about time he is. But one more thing. Want to put those numbers into an even better perspective? Let\u2019s compare them to the players you\u2019re watching today. You probably think they\u2019re pretty good, right?<\/p>\n<p>But you know how many active players have ever had an 11-year stretch in which they matched or beat the numbers of Allen\u2019s best 11 seasons \u2014 a .940 OPS (or better), a .554 slugging percentage (or better), an OPS 65 percent above league average (or better)? Exactly one: the young <a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"KJGSXFXlt4bQ7ryA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/mlb\/player\/mike-trout-KJGSXFXlt4bQ7ryA\/\">Mike Trout<\/a>. But that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"SFIT5wwDvRYLsber\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/mlb\/player\/aaron-judge-SFIT5wwDvRYLsber\/\">Aaron Judge<\/a> might get there someday. <a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"PYXhWEdNdM6bQVDP\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/mlb\/player\/shohei-ohtani-PYXhWEdNdM6bQVDP\/\">Shohei Ohtani<\/a> might get there. Juan (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/5932790\/2024\/12\/08\/juan-soto-mets-free-agent-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$765 Million Man<\/a>) Soto might get there. But none of them have played 11 seasons in the big leagues yet. So get back to me when they do, OK?<\/p>\n<p>Of the other active players who <em>have<\/em> played 11 seasons or more, none are even close to a 165 OPS+ for an 11-year span. Not <a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"fJdyR59AnffvvTIg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/mlb\/player\/freddie-freeman-fJdyR59AnffvvTIg\/\">Freddie Freeman<\/a>. Not <a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"9lv6KXk96rZdbNPh\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/mlb\/player\/bryce-harper-9lv6KXk96rZdbNPh\/\">Bryce Harper<\/a>. Not <a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"40qIanIFo3PVjfGr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/mlb\/player\/mookie-betts-40qIanIFo3PVjfGr\/\">Mookie Betts<\/a>. And they\u2019re <em>all<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/5615041\/2024\/07\/05\/baseball-hall-of-fame-active-players-hof-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on their way to Cooperstown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So how did Dick Allen get elected all these years later? That\u2019s how. We know what that sort of greatness looks like now. We just had to stop counting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/2998680\/2021\/12\/06\/dick-allens-numbers-havent-changed-but-how-we-view-them-should-jayson-stark\/\" class=\"go-deeper\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"go-deeper\">\n<div class=\"go-deeper-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.theathletic.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=128,height=128,fit=cover,format=auto\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/03200126\/GettyImages-56607302-scaled-e1638731430613-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"go-deeper\" alt=\"go-deeper\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"go-deeper-label\">GO DEEPER<\/p>\n<p class=\"go-deeper-title\">Dick Allen\u2019s numbers haven\u2019t changed, but how we view them should: Jayson Stark<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>3. Dave Parker and the power of the peak\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_873475\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-873475 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/athletic\/uploads\/wp\/2019\/03\/17211405\/parker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3600\" height=\"2430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/athletic\/uploads\/wp\/2019\/03\/17211405\/parker.jpg 3600w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/athletic\/uploads\/wp\/2019\/03\/17211405\/parker-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/athletic\/uploads\/wp\/2019\/03\/17211405\/parker-1024x691.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3600px) 100vw, 3600px\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-credits\">\n<div class=\"inline-credits-container\">\n      <span class=\"table-cell-span\"\/><br \/>\n      <span class=\"credits-text\">Dave Parker played for the Pirates from 1973-83. His five-year peak from 1975-79 was a sight to behold. (Focus on Sport \/ Getty Images)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t Dave Parker\u2019s 2,712 hits that got him elected to the Hall of Fame. It wasn\u2019t his .290 career batting average. It wasn\u2019t his 339 career homers.<\/p>\n<p>None of that hurt, obviously. There are only three other right fielders in the live-ball era in the 2,700-Hit, .290 or Better, 300-Homer Club \u2014 Hank Aaron, Al Kaline and Mel Ott \u2014 and you can find out lots more about them the next time you\u2019re in Cooperstown.<\/p>\n<p>So Parker hung around long enough that he <em>did<\/em> have the counting numbers that should have gotten him into Cooperstown a long time ago. But those weren\u2019t the numbers that finally got him elected Sunday \u2014 in his fourth appearance on one of these committee ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Nope. He may have played nearly two decades in the big leagues. But don\u2019t even bother looking at any of the 12 he played after 1979. You know why he\u2019s bound for Cooperstown? Because of his first five full seasons \u2014 the seasons that created the legend of Dave Parker.<\/p>\n<p>Behold his five-year peak (1975-79). You\u2019ll see what the heck I\u2019m talking about.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Slash line:<\/strong> .321\/.377\/.532\/.909, 147 OPS+<br \/><strong>Average season:<\/strong> 23 HR\/98 RBIs\/17 SB<br \/><strong>Gold Gloves:<\/strong> 3<br \/><strong>Batting titles:<\/strong> 2<br \/><strong>MVP awards:<\/strong> 1<br \/><strong>World Series rings:<\/strong> 1<br \/><strong>WAR\/season:<\/strong> 6.2<\/p>\n<p>I could find only one comparable five-year run <em>by any right fielder in history<\/em> before that. And it was a fellow named Henry Aaron who produced that one. I don\u2019t know about you, but that got my attention.<\/p>\n<p>The young Dave Parker was also a man with a throwing arm so supersonic, the folks at NASA should have borrowed it. In 1977, he had a season with 26 outfield assists \u2014 yep, 26! Only one outfielder in the expansion era has topped that one \u2014 a <a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"114\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/mlb\/team\/pirates\/\">Pirates<\/a> right fielder from a previous era, Roberto Clemente. And he just beat it by one, with 27 assists, in 1961.<\/p>\n<p>So how the heck could it have taken all these decades for <em>that<\/em> guy to get elected? That\u2019s a question Parker himself asked Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy wife was super excited,\u201d he told MLB Network after the results were announced. \u201cShe\u2019s saying that she can\u2019t believe that it\u2019s taken this long. <em>And I agree with her<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ha. I don\u2019t want to spend a whole lot of time or space explaining why it did take that long. But suffice to say, the Dave Parker who played 11 more seasons after turning 30 was a polarizing figure and a very ordinary player.<\/p>\n<p>His <em>average<\/em> wins above replacement in those 11 seasons computed to a little over half a win per season. He went from one of the best outfielders in baseball in his 20s to one of the worst (totaling <em>minus-61<\/em> Fielding Runs Above Average from 1980-91, according to Baseball Reference).<\/p>\n<p>Plus there was way too much off-the-field drama and controversy. And the voters had a tough time getting that out of their heads \u2014 until now.<\/p>\n<p>So why did Parker finally get elected? Why did he and Allen get elected together for that matter? Because we\u2019re seeing a massive shift in Hall of Fame voting these days, right before our eyes.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not those good old magic counting numbers of yesteryear that fuel the candidacies of the 21st century anymore. It\u2019s players with special peaks of greatness who are now resonating all the way to Cooperstown.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it. Just since 2019, the writers have elected Edgar Martinez, Larry Walker, Scott Rolen, Joe Mauer and Todd Helton. I don\u2019t see any 3,000-hit men on <em>that<\/em> list.<\/p>\n<p>And the various Veterans Committees have started veering in that direction, too. They elected Ted Simmons in 2020. And two years ago, we saw vote totals surge for Don Mattingly and Dale Murphy, two more guys who put themselves in the Best Player in Baseball debate for five or six years but got penalized by previous electorates for being counting-number challenged.<\/p>\n<p>So the election of Allen and Parker represents just the latest dramatic shift in how we think <em>and<\/em> how we vote. Remember that when we turn our attention to the latest Baseball Writers\u2019 Association of America ballot next month \u2014 and you run across names like F\u00e9lix Hern\u00e1ndez and Dustin Pedroia on it.<\/p>\n<p>The world is changing, friends \u2014 and it\u2019s changing Cooperstown. It was a looonnnggg, wild ride from the good old 1970s back to their Hall of Fame future. But on a memorable Sunday evening, Dave Parker and the late, great Dick Allen got their invitations to the plaque gallery. And for the rest of baseball time, no one will care how many years it took to get there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/5979358\/2024\/12\/08\/dick-allen-dave-parker-baseball-hall-of-fame\/\" class=\"go-deeper\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"go-deeper\">\n<div class=\"go-deeper-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/athletic\/uploads\/wp\/2024\/12\/08201458\/hallfame-1024x683.jpg?width=128&amp;height=128&amp;fit=cover&amp;auto=webp\" class=\"go-deeper\" alt=\"go-deeper\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"go-deeper-label\">GO DEEPER<\/p>\n<p class=\"go-deeper-title\">Dick Allen, Dave Parker elected to Baseball Hall of Fame by era committee<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/5929077\/2024\/11\/18\/baseball-hall-of-fame-2025-ballot-storylines\/\" class=\"go-deeper\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"go-deeper\">\n<div class=\"go-deeper-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/athletic\/uploads\/wp\/2024\/11\/18062647\/GettyImages-52630645-1024x685.jpg?width=128&amp;height=128&amp;fit=cover&amp;auto=webp\" class=\"go-deeper\" alt=\"go-deeper\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"go-deeper-label\">GO DEEPER<\/p>\n<p class=\"go-deeper-title\">Five things to watch on the 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/5923084\/2024\/11\/18\/baseball-hall-of-fame-2025-newcomers-ichiro\/\" class=\"go-deeper\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"go-deeper\">\n<div class=\"go-deeper-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/athletic\/uploads\/wp\/2024\/11\/18075353\/GettyImages-151000176-1024x743.jpg?width=128&amp;height=128&amp;fit=cover&amp;auto=webp\" class=\"go-deeper\" alt=\"go-deeper\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"go-deeper-label\">GO DEEPER<\/p>\n<p class=\"go-deeper-title\">A salute to Ichiro, CC Sabathia and the other 12 newcomers to the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/5964195\/2024\/12\/04\/baseball-hall-2025-survey-ichiro\/\" class=\"go-deeper\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"go-deeper\">\n<div class=\"go-deeper-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/athletic\/uploads\/wp\/2024\/12\/03152235\/GettyImages-1142437307-1024x599.jpg?width=128&amp;height=128&amp;fit=cover&amp;auto=webp\" class=\"go-deeper\" alt=\"go-deeper\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"go-deeper-label\">GO DEEPER<\/p>\n<p class=\"go-deeper-title\">Baseball Hall of Fame reader survey results: How Ichiro, Wagner, Sabathia and more fared<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>(Top image: Dave Parker: Justin Berl \/ Getty Images; 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