{"id":131,"date":"2007-10-28T16:29:54","date_gmt":"2007-10-28T16:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/baseballs-best-the-true-hall-of-famers\/"},"modified":"2010-03-11T04:08:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T04:08:49","slug":"baseballs-best-the-true-hall-of-famers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/baseballs-best-the-true-hall-of-famers\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball’s Best: The TRUE Hall of Famers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Title: <\/font> BASEBALL’S BEST: The TRUE Hall of Famers<\/strong> <\/font>
\nAuthor: <\/font> Michael Hoban, Ph.D. <\/font>
\n Formats: <\/font> PDF (ebook) | Paperback <\/font>
\n<\/font> Pages: <\/font> 223<\/font><\/p>\n

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Click cover to order book<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Chapter One: The Win Shares System<\/a><\/strong><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chapter Two: The NEWS Hall of Fame Monitor<\/a><\/strong><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chapter Three: The True Hall of Famers<\/a><\/strong><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chapter Four: The Position Players in the Hall of Fame<\/a><\/strong><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chapter Five: A Short and Great Career<\/a><\/strong><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chapter Nine: The True Hall of Famers – The Pitchers<\/a><\/strong><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chapter Ten: The Pitchers who are in the Hall of Fame<\/a><\/strong><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chapter Eleven: Two Special Categories of Pitchers<\/a><\/strong><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Top 100 Position Players of the 20th Century<\/a><\/strong><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Top 40 Pitchers of the 20th Century<\/a><\/strong><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Bill James\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 WIN SHARES system is the ultimate baseball statistic currently available to judge exactly how good a season a player had. That is the view of Dr. Michael Hoban -retired mathematics professor and serious baseball analyst. And that is why the professor has used WIN SHARES in his new book to create a new Hall of Fame monitor. The NEWS monitor tells us which players (whether in the <\/st1>HOF<\/st1> or not) have TRUE Hall of Fame numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Hoban has been a baseball fan for over 60 years and a serious baseball analyst for the past ten years (he is a member of SABR – Society for American Baseball Research). He has previously written two books devoted to the task of ranking players.<\/p>\n

1. Baseball\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Complete Players<\/em><\/strong> (McFarland: 2000) was an attempt to put the numbers together (both offensive and defensive) to see who were baseball\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best all-around players at each position.
\n2. Fielder\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Choice: Baseball\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Best Shortstops<\/em><\/strong> (Booklocker: 2003) was an attempt to rank the shortstops by defensive skills and then by overall excellence.<\/p>\n

The professor says that the publication of the book WIN SHARES in 2002 changed the face of baseball analysis where the comparison of baseball players is concerned. WIN SHARES is the most comprehensive tool available since it takes into account virtually every phase of a player\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s contribution to his team \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and adjusts for such things as different eras and different ballparks. And that is why Hoban has used the WIN SHARES system to create the NEWS Hall of Fame Monitor.<\/p>\n

If you want to see a serious but somewhat different approach to ranking the best baseball players of the 20th century, this is it. Every fan with an interest in baseball\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hall of Fame will want to examine this new ranking of the TRUE Hall of Famers.<\/p>\n

Here is a sampling of some of the conclusions of the book.<\/p>\n

1. From 1901 to 2006, only ninety-one (91) position players and forty-nine (49) pitchers had TRUE Hall of Fame numbers (a total of 140 players).<\/p>\n

2. There are sixty-eight (68) position players who are in the Hall of Fame who have <\/st1>HOF<\/st1> numbers (57%) and fifty-two (52) who do not have the numbers (43%).<\/p>\n

3. There are thirty-seven (37) pitchers in the Hall who have the numbers (71%) and fifteen (15) who do not (29%).<\/p>\n

4. Of the players who have TRUE HOF numbers, eight position players and five pitchers were still active in 2006.<\/p>\n

– Barry Bonds is the #3 best position player of the century.
\n– Roger Clemens is the #5 best pitcher (Greg Maddux is #9).
\n– Alex Rodriguez is the #2 shortstop of the century.
\n– Mike Piazza is the #3 catcher.
\n– Frank Thomas is the #3 first baseman.
\n– Craig Biggio is the #5 second baseman.
\n– Mariano Rivera is the best true reliever of the century.
\n– Randy Johnson and Tom Glavine are the other two pitchers.
\n– Gary Sheffield, Ken Griffey Jr and Manny Ramirez complete the group.<\/p>\n

5. The NEWS monitor shows that some players who had short but great careers (e.g., Jackie Robinson, Sandy Koufax, Hank Greenberg) still were able to post Hall of Fame numbers.<\/p>\n

6. There were only thirteen (13) megastar position players during the 20th century. Here they are in order: Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Barry Bonds, Honus Wagner, Willie Mays, Tris Speaker, Mickey Mantle, Stan Musial, Ted Williams, Hank Aaron, Eddie Collins, Rogers Hornsby and Lou Gehrig.<\/p>\n

About the Author <\/strong><\/p>\n

Michael Hoban, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus (mathematics) of the City<\/st1> University<\/st1> of <\/st1>New York<\/st1>. <\/span><\/span>Professor Hoban has been a baseball fan for over 60 years and a serious baseball analyst for the past ten years (he is a member of SABR – Society for American Baseball Research). <\/span>He has previously written two books devoted to the task of ranking players.<\/em><\/p>\n

1. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em>Baseball\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Complete Players (<\/span><\/em><\/strong>McFarland: 2000) was an attempt to put the numbers together (both offensive and defensive) to see who were baseball\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best all-around players at each position.<\/o><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

2.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em> Fielder\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Choice: Baseball\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Best Shortstops <\/span><\/em><\/strong>(Booklocker: 2003) was an attempt to rank the shortstops by defensive skills and then by overall excellence.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Title: BASEBALL’S BEST: The TRUE Hall of Famers Author: Michael Hoban, Ph.D. Formats: PDF (ebook) | Paperback Pages: 223 Click cover to order book   Chapter One: The Win Shares System Chapter Two: The NEWS Hall of Fame Monitor Chapter Three: The True Hall of Famers Chapter Four: The Position Players in the Hall of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-131","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t