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Utter HOF Hypocrisy

Pub: NY Daily News November 29, 2021 Unpublished
Hometown: Utica, NY Writes: Lefty/Southpaw
Tags: History · Yankees

NEW YORK NIGHTS

Pub: NY Daily News November 29, 2021 Unpublished
Hometown: Utica, NY Writes: Lefty/Southpaw
Tags: History · Yankees

NEW YORK NIGHTS

Bill Madden knows more about baseball than I ever will, and he is right on the money when he dissects the reasons that Alex Rodriguez and David Ortiz don’t deserve entry into the Baseball Hall of Fame (Sun. 11/28/21). Along with Bonds, Clemens, Sosa and McGuire these guys represent the tainted “Steroids Era”, when the Lords of Baseball colluded to ignore the use of performance-enhancing drugs, in the hope that big power numbers would bring fans back to the game after the strike of 1994. On the other hand, with all due respect to Mr. Madden, if ex-Commissioner Bud Selig can be swept into the HOF, despite being the number one “see no evil” collaborator of the era, then there can be no justification for keeping any of these cheaters out.

— Jeff and Joan Ganeles, Utica, NY
Year Letters Published Avg. Avg. Wait Time (Days)
2009 1 1 1.000 3.0
2011 1 1 1.000 5.0
2012 2 2 1.000 5.5
2013 1 1 1.000 2.0
2016 1 1 1.000 3.0
2017 8 7 .875 5.9
2018 8 7 .875 5.1
2019 12 11 .917 5.5
2020 16 10 .625 7.1
2021 13 10 .769 4.3
2022 13 11 .846 2.0
2023 13 12 .923 2.5
2024 26 13 .500 3.4
2025 48 31 .646 3.5
2026 56 33 .589 4.2
Career 219 151 .689 4.1
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