This post is for voting and discussion in the 60th round of balloting for the Circle of Greats (COG).  This round begins to add those players born in 1922.  Rules and lists are after the jump. Continue reading →

After barely being nosed out by John Smoltz in the 1924 round voting, Duke Snider appeared on eight more ballots than last round, a level of support that proved more than enough to become the 59th inductee into the High Heat Stats Circle of Greats. More on the Duke and the voting, after that ever-present jump. Continue reading →

This post is for voting and discussion in the 59th round of balloting for the Circle of Greats (COG).  This round adds to the ballot those players born in 1923.  Rules and lists are after the jump. Continue reading →

John Smoltz started here at the Circle of Greats voting by appearing on exactly 50% of the ballots in his very first round (which was also just the second round of COG voting as a whole). Then, for the next 57 (!) rounds, John never appeared on nearly that high a percentage of the ballots again. Until, that is, he received a stunning level of very late support in the 1924 round of voting to tie Duke Snider, and closed things out with a 50.8% showing in a runoff against the Duke, making Smoltz the 58th inductee into the High Heat Stats Circle of Greats. More on John and the voting after the jump Continue reading →

Quite an amazing comeback by John Smoltz to tie the 1924 round of the Circle of Greats voting. Smoltz appeared on all of the final six ballots of the round, while Duke Snider appeared on only one of those ballots. A five-vote lead with hours to go is generally an insurmountable lead, but is not, apparently, always so.

Smoltz and Snider played entirely different roles during widely separated eras. But they each played on the dominant National League team of their time, with several Hall of Fame quality teammates, while falling short of the number of World Series championships that playing on such dominant teams might have been expected to produce.

Let’s do a relatively short runoff vote, though I want to give a chance both to those who access the site on weekends and those who log on during the week. So let’s say all runoff votes are due in by 11PM EDT on Wednesday, May 28.

Runoff votes must show just one name, Smoltz’s or Snider’s. You also need to add some sort of additional verbiage though, because as I remember the comment function here at HHS won’t work with just one-word comments.

I’m out of town this weekend and don’t have easy access to the spreadsheets, so I’m not posting a counting spreadsheet right now. For the moment, volunteer commenters are welcome to periodically post a running tally of the votes within the comments themselves.

This post is for voting and discussion in the 58th round of balloting for the Circle of Greats (COG).  This round adds to the ballot those players born in 1924.  Rules and lists are after the jump. Continue reading →

After he finished third and fourth, respectively, over the previous two rounds, Juan Marichal’s support this round bounced up and put him over the top, in his 17th round on the ballot. Marichal becomes the 57th inductee into the High Heat Stats Circle of Greats. Continue reading →

This post is for voting and discussion in the 57th round of balloting for the Circle of Greats (COG).  This round completes the addition, that was begun in the previous round, of those players born in 1925.  Rules and lists are after the jump. Continue reading →

It got late early in this round’s balloting, as Yogi Berra ran away with the voting. Yogi becomes the 56th inductee into the High Heat Stats Circle of Greats. Continue reading →

This post is for voting and discussion in the 56th round of balloting for the Circle of Greats (COG).  This round begins to add those players born in 1925.  Rules and lists are after the jump. Continue reading →