S1E2: Early Baseball Era Committee - Candidates from the White Major Leagues with Jay Jaffe Building the Ballot: The Baseball Hall of Fame’s Era Committees

This Winter, the Early Baseball Era Committee will meet to vote on ten candidates for the Baseball Hall of Fame. This committee covers all of baseball before 1950. The ballot will consider players from the White major leagues and the Black major leagues as well as pioneers, managers, umpires, and executives. How will the committee distill over 100 years of baseball into just ten names? To complicate matters, this committee won’t meet again for ten years.



This episode covers the White major leagues from 1871 to 1949. We’ll cover 19th century players like Bill Dahlen, Harry Stovey, Jim McCormick, and Charlie Bennett along with 20th century stars Wes Ferrell, Sherry Magee, Bob Johnson, and Wally Schang. Jay Jaffe, Senior Writer for Fangraphs and author of the Cooperstown Casebook joins the podcast.



Jay Jaffe on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jay_jaffe



The Cooperstown Casebook: https://cooperstowncasebook.com/