# Any interest in a SD Baseball Hall of Fame? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 12, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-interest-in-a-sd-baseball-hall-of-fame/615567 "2012-03-12T17:48:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-interest-in-a-sd-baseball-hall-of-fame/615567/1 "2012-03-12T17:48:24Z")
Seeing all the hoopla surrounding the position polls this week, I was idly wondering if there would be interest for this as well. Feel free to express your support and/or pontificate. ---
**Author:** ![Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dread_pirate_jimbo/32/3897_2.png) [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Jimbo)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-interest-in-a-sd-baseball-hall-of-fame/615567/2 "2012-03-12T18:04:19Z")
I think it might be an interesting exercise. I say yes! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-interest-in-a-sd-baseball-hall-of-fame/615567/3 "2012-03-12T18:19:29Z")
Didn’t Marley or someone do this last summer? I think we should let the current run of “Best XX Player” threads run their course first. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2012, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-interest-in-a-sd-baseball-hall-of-fame/615567/4 "2012-03-13T02:28:53Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Didn’t Marley or someone do this last summer? I think we should let the current run of “Best XX Player” threads run their course first. I started it four years ago and didn’t finish. My bad, plus someone was being a huge jerk about it and complaining about how I was doing it. I’d happily help with another try. ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-interest-in-a-sd-baseball-hall-of-fame/615567/5 "2012-03-14T17:06:33Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > I started it four years ago and didn’t finish. My bad, plus someone was being a huge jerk about it and complaining about how I was doing it. > > I’d happily help with another try. That was a lot of fun. Was that really four years ago? _Four?_ It feels like last year. I’d be interested in another go-round. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-interest-in-a-sd-baseball-hall-of-fame/615567/6 "2012-03-14T17:26:09Z")
How would it work? Don’t we have polls each year at HOF voting time? So, there are records of how the SDMB would vote on our HOF ballots. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-interest-in-a-sd-baseball-hall-of-fame/615567/7 "2012-03-14T22:57:05Z")
Well, we could just go back to 1938 and start voting for each (simulated) year-is once every 2 weeks enough time? 1 week? 1 month? A week might work best, if we precede each vote with a discussion thread (while the previous year is being voted on). I’d stick with the actual HoF’s voting rules, 10 max per ballot (20 tho for the first year), 75% to get in. ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-interest-in-a-sd-baseball-hall-of-fame/615567/8 "2012-03-14T23:22:43Z")
If we do a week for every year since 1938, I think it would never get done - we’d be at it for more than a year, and eventually momentum would just kind of fade away. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-interest-in-a-sd-baseball-hall-of-fame/615567/9 "2012-03-15T00:16:35Z")
I have seen it done before, I think on rec.sport.baseball starting in 1998. It was one player per year, starting in 1921. I poked around looking for it and apparently its web page only exists on the Wayback Machine these days: [Virtual Hall of Fame](http://web.archive.org/web/20071027142836/http://doug.obscurestuff.com/vhof.html). I also found [this depressing profile of Voros McCracken, the guy who invented DIPS](http://www.thepostgame.com/features/201101/sabermetrician-exile).