When talking about Hall of Fame snubs, what about Dom DiMaggio?

Good player. Very good fielder, likely would have won a few Gold Gloves if that award had been around in his time. Above average hitter. Short career (some seasons lost to military service). Stayed with the one team, which isn't really important but always adds that little bonus point to appearances. Led the AL in stolen bases in 1950 with 15, which says more about the AL and baserunning at the time than it does about Dom.

I dunno... there's room in the Hall for a player like Dom DiMaggio, but the Hall isn't suffering for his not being there. I can't see enough Hall-class greatness to make Dom D. a must-have. Santo is still at the head of the Unjustly Denied line.

The voters didn't much care for DiMaggio's candidacy; he wasn't even on the ballots consistently.

year -- votes -- %

1960 -- 4 -- 1.5%

1962 -- 2 -- 1.3%

1964 -- 12 -- 6.0%

1968 -- 8 -- 2.8%

1969 -- 13 -- 3.8%

1970 -- 15 -- 5.0%

1971 -- 15 -- 4.2%

1972 -- 36 -- 9.1%

1973 -- 43 -- 11.3%

Dom Dimaggio

You can see a lot of power hitters in the Hall of Fame who did not really help their teams to enough victories to play beyond the regular season. Players like Ralph Kiner. Andre Dawson. But Dom DiMaggio did help them to a World Series. He was a sparkplug. A very hard out. Hall of Fame worthy.

Compare his stats to Jim Rice and Dave Parker and then tell me who needs to be in the hall!!!!!

Dave makes the best point, his best season wass 12 homers and a .296 batting average. He only had 87 homers for his career (averaged 8 a season) what else did he do compared to others from his generation that makes him a snub for the Hall? OF course he was out for the war most ballplayers were so even if you add 2-4 years to his stats he doesn't even come close to the players from his generation that are in. That's all I got on that question.

There's no snub, the guy is NOT a hall of famer. There's just too much promoting guys who were Hall of Good players out there and this is a perfect case. Good player but if this guy ever got in the hall, a whole ton of "just good" players would get in. If Ted Williams had had his way though, Dom would have been in. Ted was one of his biggest supporters and had been pushing for him to get in the hall for years and years. I believe the last two guys Ted had been pushing for were Dom and Mel Harder.

Looking at those stats... NO WAY!!! Only 87 homeruns, 618 RBI's in 11 seasons??

His best season was 1951 when he hit .296 with 12 HR's and 72 RBI's at age 34...

Heck... I can make the arguement that Freddy Lynn belongs in the Hall!!! Career .283 average, 306 HR's, 1111 RBI's in 16 seasons, rookie of the year AND MVP in 1975, 9 time All-Star, 4 time Gold Glove award winner, 1982 ALCS MVP, 1983 All-Star Game MVP, lead the AL in batting average in 1979, led the AL in slugging % twice (1975 and 1979), lead the AL in on base % in 1979.

Fred Lynn hands down over Dom Dimaggio

The closest thing that he has to getting into the Hall of Fame is that his name is close to Joe DiMaggio and Don Mattingly. He's not making it sorry. The Hall of Fame will compare him to Joe too much.

You are correct -- he was more than Joe's little brother. He was a solid hitter and a fantastic fielder, and he is lost in big bro's shaddow.

However, he is nowhere near HOF caliber. There are dozens of more worthy outfielders that still aren't in.

He is really more comparable to Mark Kotsay in his prime. Solid, smart player, great with the bat, knows the game, can run, and field like heck. Nowhere near the HOF though.

Not a snub, slugging numbers are too low and RBIs aren't hall worthy. A good player, not an immortal.

He should be the Hall of Fame. Every thing isn t about HR and RBIs.