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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:00 AM

King Kaufman's Sports Daily

Hall of Fame voters snub Mark McGwire, meaning we'll be arguing about him again next year. Here's a vote for just moving on.

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  • Wednesday, January 10, 2007 10:02 PM

    Maris again

    Thanks for the replies, Smileyy and Khan. It is clear that the Hall rewards individual excellence and pretty clear that it does not reward the exceptional team player (Maris was that player).

    But it really isn't too fine a point that he was MVP two years in a row and for Chrissakes he broke Ruth's record.

    It isn't some judicious set of standards that gets them in or keeps them out, after all. That Maris is not in there really makes us question the credibility and purpose of the whole place.

    —Traduced! Read Traduced!'s other letters

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