The Baseball Hall of Fame announced Gil Hodges is among 10 players on the Golden Days Era committee to be considered for enshrinement. As much as his legions of devoted fans would finally like to see this injustice finally rectified, the odds are it won’t happen.
It really pained me to write that last sentence. I am among those fans who think the Hall is not complete without Hodges. But this is nothing new, and the last time he was considered, he got the dreaded “fewer than three votes.” Why would that change this year?
The only hope is that the committee which will decide Hodges’s Hall of Fame fate is filled with former Mets and/or Dodgers and New York baseball writers who might be sympathetic to a Hodges candidacy.