"America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has 
marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again."
- James Earl Jones - Field of Dreams
As I became more involved in collecting Hall of Fame autographs, I started reading Moneyball and the works of historians such as Bill James and realized the stats I used to believe were the measure of a great player (Average, HRs, RBIs) were not really the case. A player may have hit .300 in his career, with 400 doubles, 50 triples, 500 home runs and 500 walks -- but his job was not to hit doubles, nor to hit singles, nor to hit triples, nor to draw walks or even hit home runs, but rather to put runs on the scoreboard or prevent them from happening in the field. If a hitter was not one of the best ever at scoring or preventing runs should he really be enshrined in the Hall of Fame?
On this site you will also find the autographs I have obtained for modern era Hall of Famers along with my personal analysis on each player. I have also added players with a * who deserve to be in Cooperstown based on these non-traditional stats.
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Many attempts have been made to compare players from different eras, but the measure I have found most accurate are the adjusted stats posted on Baseball Reference for each player. Stats of players who played in hitter friendly Fenway Park should not be compared equally to players who played in the Astrodome. Stats of players who played in the pitcher dominated late 1960s should not be compared to players in the 1990s. These Adjusted Career Stats are posted on each player's page and do a very good job of comparing players from different eras.
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