Either a guy is a HOFer/GoGer, or he’s not. If you have issue with of the group I listed (outside of those already questioned), then name them - but if your only concern is that “not everyone is as good as Babe Ruth”, well… then aren’t you wasting our time?

If you’d like, and I don’t think it’s a bad idea fwiw, we can have the added aspect of ranking our GoGers. Now, it would be mostly subjective - especially wrt hitters vs. pitchers vs. non-players (so perhaps we rank within those classifications, but then… what about the fact that Ruth was great hitter *and* a great pitcher?). I guess we’d all submit our rankings, then take the averages to arrive at the “official” GoG rankings - and perhaps as each new guy is added, we submit individual rankings, and then take the average to “officially” slot him? I dunno… we can discuss the mechanics of that more. But perhaps ranking them would be an interesting and fun exercise - and at the very least, would address your concern that someone might have the audacity to put Robin Young on par with Babe Ruth (although, admittedly, I’ve personally yet to meet this fictional individual).

Since we are starting from scratch, I would propose not automatically initiating the 40 or so guys you list above, but rather allow players access based upon merit. Surely Robin Yount is not the same type of HOF as Babe Ruth, and it is insulting to induct them at the same time.

As for Landis, can we agree that he’s not going into the GoG for his judicial record - but rather his candidacy is based solely on his resume as baseball commissioner? Now his judgments as commish are clearly worthy fodder, but my point is that his non-baseball judgments are moot. In short, I’d put Jim Brown into Canton in a heartbeat for his performances on the football field - and rightfully ignore his performances on the silver screen (which were, um, less than historically great… although “Dirty Dozen” remains among my all-time favorite movies, fwiw).

Let’s stick to the *relevant* data supporting - or refuting - the candidacy of each nominee please.

I also suggest we remove Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis. Yes, he cleaned up baseball after the black sox scandal. But, he was a truly awful judge: scores and scores of his ill reasoned and capricious rulings were overturned, he got Jack Johnson banned from boxing over a racial charge, he kept blacks out of baseball and he used really specious anti-trust reasoning against standard oil while not applying any of that same reasoning when the federal league sued MLB on the same grounds and ended up screwing them and the players.

Basically, I think he was a terrible little tyrant who was bad for justice and bad for baseball players.

And yes… Tank and I do welcome input from others. And yes BA, you’re allowed to comment on someone other than PR.

Maybe nominations should be made in the main blog page to allow debate in the comments.