I haven't read the research but look forward to doing so. Of course, there is some evidence from the games themselves that would lead to suspicion that he was not playing to win, as Bill James has demonstrated. He also confessed IIRC.
Cicotte would have an interesting HoF under normal circumstances. His 1917 and 1919 season were some of the best ever, even accounting for the dead ball. He made use of the shine ball but it wasn’t illegal while he was active.
Its not for him. Its the latest racist nod to the WH. Statutory rape, gambling with the mob, abandoning kids, steroids, dealing drugs, threatening female reporters… He’d be an ambassador in this admin.
I believe it will be a cold day in hell when Jane Forbes Clark allows the induction of Rose to sully her precious village and her grandfather’s baseball museum.
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