[Kevin Finnerty]

I hear you. Joe's opinion of his own career is so glowing, he was able to shamelessly schmooze his way in on the first ballot, making him the least productive first-ballot Hall of Famer in history.

Morgan's arm was Little League compared to Mazeroski's. It's hard to compare Morgan to complete defensive second basemen like Maz or Sandberg or Alomar or Frank White, because if he fielded a ball going to his right, he couldn't record an out. Sparky Anderson said, "We always preferred to have Davey [Concepcion] take those balls."