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Show Hall Off Fame By PETE FRITCHIE The recent Baseball Writers Association election proved once more that something is wrong with the current method of electing Major League baseball base-ball players to the Hall of Fame. YEAR AFTER year great stars fail to get the necessary number of votes and instead of four or five or si x players being selected', often it is two. or one. This year it was one Bob Gibson. Gibson certainly deserves the honor. So did a few others, some who may gel further and further away from their hope as the years pass, which was what happened to Enos Slaughter. BUT GIBSON is in and he was a super star in his day. He won over 20 games in five different dif-ferent years. And l8 was his greatest year. Ironically, he lost the deciding game of the World Series that year. All during the season he w as hilling the corners and gelling his pitches across knee-high. He won 22 games and had an incredible ERA less than 2! Then came the World Series and the Detroit Tigers. Gibson beat them twice. IN THE seventh game, however, the Tigers got to him late and won the seventh game to become world champions. It was the one game Gibson probably wanted to win more than any other. And he lost it in his pest year. That says something some-thing about the Detroit Tigers of l8 who have never been the same since. This says something about the pitcher who won three series games for Detroit that year, almost forgotten in recent re-cent years. Mickey Lolich. Lolich was Gibson's opposing pitcher in that fatal seventh series game. |