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Tag Archive for ‘Ron Santo’

News and Notes: No hall for Santo

Nine-time All-Star Ron Santo was again denied entry to the Baseball Hall of Fame, this time falling nine votes shy in a vote of living Hall of Famers on Monday. The lovable Chicago Cubs third basemen, who belongs in the Hall of Fame moreso for his play on the field than his scattered-brained shamelessly biased […]

Quotation: A case for Ron Santo

“During his career Ron Santo was a nine-time All-Star. He finished in the top ten in MVP voting four times. He had the fifth highest RBI total of all major league players during the 1960s (topped only by Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Harmon Killebrew and Frank Robinson). During that period no player in the National […]