I know there are a lot of Cub fans who are terribly disappointed that Ron Santo did not get voted into the baseball Hall of Fame. But after so many failed attempts to get into the Hall, you have to begin to wonder if committee members are seeing something in Santo that the rest of us are not. His lifetime batting average is .277, and hit only 342 home runs. Granted, he had more than 1,300 RBIs and 2,254 base hits and a slugging percentage of .454. While those are solid numbers, there’s nothing in his stats that jumps out at you. Santo was clearly a very good ball player in his day, and very popular in Chicago. But compared to other players who have been elected to the Hall, his numbers fall short.
Let’s face it. If Santo had the numbers the Hall members were looking for, he would have been voted in by now.
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