[VanillaGorilla]

Roy A Thomas is inducted ahead of his time in that he gets in on the basis of being the career leader in the recently hallowed statistic of On Base Percentage.

From 1889 to 1901, Thomas appeared in 1463 games, collecting 1728 hits and 1079 walks that gave him a line of 331/448/390. He won the 1894 batting title by hitting .391. He scored 1181 career runs.

His OBP number is very Hall worthy when the fact that the next best OBP in the Hall is Al Smith's .405.

Thomas was ROY and 7 time All Star.

Though the stat is not listed in leaderboard form in OOTP, AFIK, his R/G ratio of .807 is the best I have seen during the screening process.

Smith becomes the 4th batter to be inducted that the computer did not.

Thomas hit .409 in 13 WS games, winning 1 title in 2 tries. He holds the single season record for walks with 156 in his rookie year of 1889.

Black Ink 17 (17)
Gray Ink 112 (66)
HOFm 114 (28)
HOFs 47 (26)


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I went back to the VORP/WAR list for the next inductee. Babe Herman was the highest listed eligible player, so he gets in.

Herman, like White, was inducted by the computer (and, like White, promptly removed).

In 1922 Babe Herman did something no RL player has ever done when he hit for the cycle twice in the same season.

He won and MVP, ROY, and was an All Star.

He batted .319 from 1917 to 1937. He won 2 batting titles. He hit a career best .356 in 1932.

His career line of 319/366/474 gives him a non-park adjusted OPS+ of 133.

Black 17 (1)
Gray 162 (138)
HOFm 91 (74)
HOFs 43 (39)

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Hans Lobert is the career leader in Stolen Bases. From 1904 to 1920 he stole 1039. For being the leader in this category, he gets in.

Yes, this is the only reason, but he is famous for SBs (in my world, at least), and the only other category with an eligible player leading is Caught Stealin (that player is not Lobert).

To be fair, his B/G numbers are better than both Bill White and Roy Thomas, who enter in this class.

Lobert's line of 261/316/339 are all Hall lows.

Lobert is the first HOFer to not have either a GG, ASG, ROY, or MVP/CY. What this also means is that Lobert is the first inductee that didn't even make it to the spreadsheet (a tick mark in any of these, or computer induction, gets you there).

No active player with 17 years of service, or less, is within 450 SBs of this record. This record will stand for a long time. Lou Brock is retired (583) and Rickey has yet to appear.

Lobert collect 2098 base hits in his career.

Black 18 (0)
Gray 130 (68)
HOFm 58 (2)
HOFs 26 (16)