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I almost voted for Oldring and McBride as well. The reason I didn't vote for Oldring (I still might vote for him later, as his HR is so far over the others during his era) was that his on base percentage and his slugging percentage did not quite match up to many of the other candidates. As for McBride, I decided against voting for him for the same reason that I don't think that Joe Tinker belongs in the Hall of Fame, that great defense doesn't make up for average to below-average offense.
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"When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of the summer afternoon on a river bank, we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
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