I have memories from my childhood of combing through my Baseball Encyclopedia and Baseball Reference and happening upon the list of top Hall of Fame vote-getters. Two things immediately stood out to me, as I’m sure they did to many- the first was the lack of 100s at the top of the list. How could somebody vote against a true all-time great? But perhaps even more shocking was the name at the top of the list- a man who held the highest mark for decades- Tom Seaver. At this point my knowledge of the history of the game was still forming.
Mariano Rivera Mercifully Makes Bickering Over % a Thing of the Past
