I vote for publicity stunt. Seems like Corky just wants all those interviews. If a writer just had a blanket policy, "no unanimous first ballot HoF because Ruth, et al. weren't unanimous" I could accept that.

But Matt Williams and not Rickey? Take away his vote.

Let's just make sure that the writer that gets his vote also votes for Blyleven, Trammell, & Tim Raines. Don Mattingly, Jim Rice, Andre Dawson, Matt Williams, but no Rickey?

Even Bill Conlin and Murray Chass voted for Rickey.

voting is supposed to be done by those who "know baseball", right? This guy apparently doesn't, so he no longer deserves a vote. Why is the criteria for being able to vote? Who votes for who votes?

I would've voted for Henderson, Raines, Trammell, and possibly Blyleven. If I had a vote, I'd have studied Bly's stats a bit more.

Guys, we have a say at one point and one point only: whether or not we care. You're not going to get this guy's name taken out of the old boys network, no matter how much you complain. Every time you write his name, you're just making him richer from his little publicity stunt.

When I have kids, I have no intention of taking them to the HoF. And as an adult now, I just don't care enough about it to worry who got in and who didn't. The group of folks who vote on it don't represent me at all (and in fact, have gone out of their way to ensure folks like me don't have a say by excluding Neyer from the list of voters). Why give them the time of day, when they won't give it to any of us?

Now that he got his BBWAA card, Neyer can vote in ten years, right?

From what I've read of Simpson's column, he explains his yes or no votes for various players. Somehow he neglected Henderson in his column from his yes' and his no's. He seems to be just a part time writer now for a small community paper. He either voted for Ricky and failed to mention it in his column or he screwed up and left him off accidentally. I don't think he (or anyone) could vote against Ricky unless they just sent in a blank ballot.

If Simpson really screwed up that's too bad, but it will have no real affect on anything. Henderson will surely go in on his first try. In is in. Simpson's mistake is no excuse for the amount of vitriolic comments left in his little hometown newspaper. The fools who leave Raines or Blyleven off and keep deserving players on the outside may warrant some angry words, but this guy's actions will mean nothing.

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I don't see why you all are dancing around the obvious.

Corky didn't vote for him cuz he's an old white guy who doosn't like uppity negros.

As opposed to the ones who are a credit to their race (i.e. know their place) like (in Corky's opinion) Rice, Raines, Dawson, et all.

I wouldn't be surprised if he never voted for Eddy Murray either.

Shthar, you're an idiot.

Being from Tucson, I read Simpson on and off my whole sports-reading life, until he retired. From my memory of him, I would call him an average sports writer, who writes about anything from local high school sports to the major leagues. He seemed to specialize in random articles, maybe about a long since dead golf-pro or old timer race car driver. I don't think he specialized in baseball. He wrote kind of a rambling sports-prose. Some was enjoyable, some was just boring. Towards the end, he did seem to be a lot more random and almost senile in his articles.

That said, I definitely question his logic on his ballot. But, as the title says, its one man's opinion.

Though there was a shorter waiting time back in mid-50s, Joe DiMaggio didn't get selected in his first eligible year. As long as unqualified, so-called writers are allowed to vote, strange ballots are cast.