The hall of fame voting came out this week and the results turned up empty. In July's hall of fame ceremony (covid pending) no living person will get inducted. The only players inducted from the regular ballot will be Larry Walker and Derek Jeter, who didn't get a ceremony last year due to covid. You need 75% of the vote to be enshrined in Cooperstown and the only player to come close was Curt Schilling, who got about 71%. Curt Schilling who is not a slam dunk hall of famer should be in. There is this "character clause" which has not helped Curt. Curt who has publicly supported Donald Trump and the Capitol Riots as well as making other political and homophobic statements, has this clause to blame. The "Character Clause" might go back as far as the segregationists, and it didn't help in keeping guy's like Ty Cobb who was a miserable human being out of the hall. Hall of fame enshrinement is not based on how you live your post baseball life, it's your baseball career that puts you in, Curt who went to six all-star games and I believe is in the top 50 on the all time strikeout list would be in if it wasn't for this. Curt (bloody sock) and some of the others (Barry Bonds, Mark McGuire) have artifacts in the building but are not in the hall of plaques. The Baseball Hall of Fame should be for those who helped make the game great, not based life afterwards.
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