Hall of What?

Bruce Sutter -mlb.com

Dimaggio, Ruth, Feller, Sutter? Just doesn't have a ring to it.
I agree completely with what SI's Phil Taylor says here in this article:

"Plaques in Cooperstown should be reserved for the true legends of the game, the immortals, the players your grandparents told you about or the ones you'll someday tell your grandchildren about."

No one will tell their grand kids about Sutter except for Sutter himself.

"There should be very little debate about who deserves entry to Cooperstown, because basically, if you have to ask, the answer is probably no. That means, as much as we respect their accomplishments, we'd have to permanently turn away the players who have been knocking on the door lately, like Goose Gossage, Blyleven, Jim Rice and Jack Morris. The Hall of Fame we would like to see would be for slam-dunk choices only. When in doubt, keep 'em out."

Unfortunately, the HOF has become the Hall of Stats. Players like Don Sutton and Eddie Murray got in not because they dominated a generation, but because the prolonged their career enough to reach some automatic milestone. There are guys in the HOF who many baseball fans don't know, much less the average American. Fifty years after guys like Dimaggio, Williams and Musial played, there names are still well known enough that people who have never been to a baseball game know their names. Ten years after Eddie Murray retires, if you asked most people on the street about him, they would think he was the voice of the Donkey in Shrek. If it is the hall of "Fame," shouldn't its members be famous?