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Originally Posted by Big Six
I can totally imagine a writer who didn't get along with Cobb leaving him off a Hall of Fame ballot for that reason. It happened to Ted Williams in MVP balloting, after all.
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After I saw this, I had to check what actually happened. How's this for irony...
Of the inaugural class of 1936, Cobb had the most votes (222, or 98% of the vote). So, technically, Cobb was baseball's first Hall-of-Famer. The four others, of course, were Ruth (215), Wagner (215), Mathewson (205), and W. Johnson (189).