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Jack Morris yes Tommy John yes ,

We will hear the results Sunday.

Congratulations to Jack Morris and Alan Trammell. As I said earlier in the thread, I just wanted SOMEone to make it. I'm not sure I'd have voted for either one, but I'm not offended by either one, either. Both great, dominant players. 

Marvin Miller not making it, I just don't understand. 

Sorry for fans of the others. Give it another three years.

Time to update my Last Topps Card of Every Hall of Famer Who Has a Topps Card List.....

v3

Woo hoo!  Still surprised anyone made it, though.

Yup...congrats to Morris and Trammell.  I stand by my earlier posts, but agree with V^3 that am not appalled by either of them.  I am shocked, however, that Miller didn't make it. And surprised at the love that Simmons got, falling short by just a single vote.

Trammell, yeah; Morris, shouldn't be there; Miller, shame on the voters. All the players on that committee benfited greatly by his work.

So, of course, this led to a small project. All my complete sets are kept in binders. They are sorted by team. And within each team, I put the stars and my favorites first. But the unbending rule is that Hall of Famers go before any other players (Managers or Team Cards always leadoff.)

Anyway, first I noticed that Morris, despite his end of career reputation as a mercenary, has baseball cards on only three teams. He was basically a Tiger until the last couple of years. So I feel like that reputation isn't really fair.  

Then I noticed that, pretty much from the very beginning, Morris was always the first Tiger in each set. So I didn't have to move many cards. But Trammell was less consistent. Generally, he was next or near the top, but not always. This was partially because I tried to keep him with Whitaker, but there were also some years when Gibson beat him out. And one early year when I placed him behind Lance Parrish, and Whitaker, and Morris, and Fidrych, and....Steve Kemp. Interesting. 

Finally, handling those cards from the 80s made me happy. I was fine with plain ol' cardboard, not all glossy. It made the cards more...real...somehow. Ah, nostalgia.

Well, Trammell and Morris are the top two in all those team sets now. 

v3

V3, what did you do in "84 ("85 sets, I know) for them considering Willie Hernandez?

<--------------- Totally Geeked Out! To say that this news pleases me would be a gross understatement! Childhood heroes now HOF!

Got the Fred Lynn version of the Trammell card, though your sig looks so muh better Of course, Lynn is never sniffing the HOF. Now, if Dewey had another shot I'd geek out also.