Number selected: 2
Percentage by Top Win Shares: 50.00%
Percentage based on bypassed: 11.76%
Percentage by Grade: 50.00%
Percentage by Grade bypassed: 14.81%
Percentage elected over 300 Win Shares? 50.00%
Percentage better than the established standards for the Hall (341.44 WS avg)? 50.00% (Two others also qualified.)

Ford was a better pitcher than his Win Shares indicate, probably because he never pitched a full season after age 36. However, the omission of Matthews is inexcusable. He was the best man ever to play the game at his position at the time.

Number selected: 2
Percentage by Top Win Shares: 0.00%
Percentage based on bypassed: 2.22%
Percentage by Grade: 0.00%
Percentage by Grade bypassed: 1.90%
Percentage elected over 300 Win Shares? 0.00%
Percentage better than the established standards for the Hall (341.44 WS avg)? 0.00% (Seven qualified.)

Number selected: 1
Percentage by Top Win Shares: 0.00%
Percentage based on bypassed: 5.00%
Percentage by Grade: 0.00%
Percentage by Grade bypassed: 3.57%
Percentage elected over 300 Win Shares? 0.00%
Percentage better than the established standards for the Hall (341.04 WS avg)? 0.00% (Two qualified.)

Number selected: 2
Percentage by Top Win Shares: 0.00%
Percentage based on bypassed: 5.88%
Percentage by Grade: 0.00%
Percentage by Grade bypassed: 4.08%
Percentage elected over 300 Win Shares? 0.00%
Percentage better than the established standards for the Hall (341.04 WS avg)? 0.00% (Seven qualified.)

Number selected: 2
Percentage by Top Win Shares: 0.00%
Percentage based on bypassed: 10.00%
Percentage by Grade: 50.00%
Percentage by Grade bypassed: 10.71%
Percentage elected over 300 Win Shares? 50.00%
Percentage better than the established standards for the Hall (339.3 WS avg)? 50.00 (We'll give Roberts the .3 Win Shares. Matthews and Snider also qualified.)

Number selected: 1
Percentage by Top Win Shares: 0.00%
Percentage based on bypassed: 1.14%
Percentage by Grade: 50.00%
Percentage by Grade bypassed: 1.60%
Percentage elected over 300 Win Shares? 50.00%
Percentage better than the established standards for the Hall (339.3 WS avg)? 50.00% (Seven qualified.)

Eddie Matthews? No. Freddie Lindstrom? Yes. Now, that's what the Hall was about in the Seventies.

Number selected: 1
Percentage by Top Win Shares: 0.00%
Percentage based on bypassed: 33.33%
Percentage by Grade: 0.00%
Percentage by Grade bypassed: 13.33%
Percentage elected over 300 Win Shares? 100.00%
Percentage better than the established standards for the Hall (337.4 WS avg)? 0.00% (Two qualified.)

Number selected: 2
Percentage by Top Win Shares: 0.00%
Percentage based on bypassed: 5.88%
Percentage by Grade: 0.00%
Percentage by Grade bypassed: 4.17%
Percentage elected over 300 Win Shares? 0.00%
Percentage better than the established standards for the Hall (337.4 WS avg)? 0.00% (Nine qualified (Caruthers had 337).)

Number selected: 1
Percentage by Top Win Shares: 100.00%
Percentage based on bypassed: 100.00%
Percentage by Grade: 100.00%
Percentage by Grade bypassed: 100.00%
Percentage elected over 300 Win Shares? 100.00%
Percentage better than the established standards for the Hall (336.51 WS avg)? 100.00% (Snider also qualified.)

Number selected: 1
Percentage by Top Win Shares: 0.00%
Percentage based on bypassed: 0.55%
Percentage by Grade: 0.00%
Percentage by Grade bypassed: 0.00%
Percentage elected over 300 Win Shares? 0.00%
Percentage better than the established standards for the Hall (336.51 WS avg)? 0.00% (Nine qualified.)

This should have been it for the veterans. Not only is Addie Joss a horrific pick, he is not even eligible under the Hall's own rules. He pitched only nine seasons, only eight with 200 in era in which pitched threw twice that. His ERA looks great, but he only led the league once in adjusted ERA (1908). Joss died of tubercular meningitis two days after turning 31. Could Joss have been a credible Hall of Famer had he played another five or ten seasons? Sure, but the same could have been said of Lyman Bostock. But this aint the Hall of Whadda Shoulda Coulda.

The Hall had been curbing their activities more and more since their shameless Seventies began. Somehow they survived though.

Number selected: 1
Percentage by Top Win Shares: 100.00%
Percentage based on bypassed: 100.00%
Percentage by Grade: 100.00%
Percentage by Grade bypassed: 100.00%
Percentage elected over 300 Win Shares? 100.00%
Percentage better than the established standards for the Hall (336.25 WS avg)? 100.00% (Snider also qualified.)

Number selected: 1
Percentage by Top Win Shares: 0.00%
Percentage based on bypassed: 0.87%
Percentage by Grade: 0.00%
Percentage by Grade bypassed: 0.00%
Percentage elected over 300 Win Shares? 0.00%
Percentage better than the established standards for the Hall (336.25 WS avg)? 0.00% (Nine qualified.)

Hack Wilson is the position-player equivalent of Addie Joss. He at least played 12 seasons, so he was eligible without a Yuri Gellar-like bending of the rules. However, he had only six seasons of 120 or more games. He had a great five-year peak but Albert Belle is a better candidate.

To be continued…