Talk:2006 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting

Committee on African-American Baseball

Written recommendations from fans and non-committee members were accepted through October 2005. Of the many . . . 94 who were considered by the screening committee were: [list deleted].

Who narrowed the many recommendations to 94? That is basic information we should try to learn! --02:02, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Did the Committee on A-A BB win the grant and undertake the 2001–2005 research and writing? Or is CAABB specifically the shared name of two committees appointed by the Hall of Fame to select Negro Leagues finalists and then to select among them, 2005/2006?

If the former, then the CAABB should be the subject of a separate article.

Either way, the 2005/2006 consideration of pre-NeL and Negro Leagues figures should be the subject of a good Main Article. That article should cover:

• selection procedures (adequately covered here, except for the point noted above)
• three groups of winners, finalists, semifinalists (the outcomes, covered here)
• background: how and why the reconsideration at this time 2001–2006 (maybe a MLB initiative rather than a Museum and HOF initiative)
• aftermath: what people presume, surmise, and hope(aloud) about the finality of this episode (eg, does this close the books? how does the HOF present these members today?)

P.S. That article would not be "List-class".

P.P.S. It's possible that a good mediocre Main Article is impossible at wikipedia because the published record is too meagre. Still, there should be a mediocre poor Main Article. --P64 (talk) 18:51, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

These seem like good ideas, but I agree that it may be hard to find the necessary sources. Has anyone from the committees written about the process? BRMo (talk) 02:11, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

limited remarks by Dick Clark and Editor S. in the Negro Leagues Committee newsletter, SABR? maybe similar remarks by others who were in position to contribute to a newsletter or be interviewed by a student newspaper?

Why was I optimistic on Sunday? It was raining ...

Evidently I overlooked that wikipedia deprecates resort to contemporary coverage in press releases, newsletters, daily newspaper articles. I have revised the postscript above. --P64 (talk) 15:53, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Hall of Fame publications

In "Further reading" I have listed and linked some contemporary Hall of Fame publications from the Internet Archive. Three of them are the institution's overview of its Negro Leagues election history, just before completion of the 2006 cycle, its press release announcing the 17 new members and a transcript of the associated press conference (both February 27).

The transcript includes Fay Vincent's introduction of the 12 committee members, for example: "Rob Ruck is an expert on eastern teams from the Negro Leagues. He's a senior lecturer in history at the University of Pittsburgh. He's authored two books and written several documentaries." --P64 (talk) 13:37, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

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