Comments on: Hall of Fame or not, Ron Santo ranks among the all-time great third basemen

By: mallethead329

mallethead329 — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:47:58 +0000

A great Cub, and the way the HOF works today and all the statistics available, you can always find an argument to put Santo in. I was (and am) a White Sox fan. That 1969 team is actaully one of the best single season starting nine ever put on a field. They should have won it. If they had, in today’s HOF, Santo is in. But Durocher lost that for them, playing them all, every day, without rest, in a all day game schedule. There was no dead ball era in that day. I was a time of some of the greatest pitching ever, They lowered the because of it. Koufax, Marichal, Gibson, Spahn, Jenkins, Bunning, Drysdale, Seaver, Carlton. Makes Santo’s numbers more impressive. Bless his family.

By: kaientai72

kaientai72 — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 04:52:10 +0000

Ron Santo is the reason that my father, and many like him became a die hard Cub Fan. I can’t be the only one who will say that. The man was not just a legend on the field, but a legend off of it. A great shame is that he won’t be alive to see his induction to the Hall of Fame. This will happen one day….Sabremetrtian, Bill James ranks Santo in the top 100…..of ALL TIME!. Those 342 homers were all dead ball era! http://www.notinhalloffame.com places him at #11 on their baseball list. RIP Mr. Santo, and thank you for the memories.

By: coneyisler

coneyisler — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 20:01:30 +0000

Good post and I’ve heard the Ron Santo argument before. Seems to me the biggest hindrance Ron always had was that his stats were inflated by Wrigley Field. If he’d played elsewhere, we might be looking at 242 home runs and OPS of .750 or so. Even with the inflated stats Wrigley gave him, he seems pretty much comparable to Ken Boyer, who was essentially his contemporary, though I think Boyer would probably be ranked ahead lifetime. Boyer won an MVP in a year in which he led the Cards to the championship. And Boyer never made the hall either. Notwithstanding any of this, everything I’ve ever heard about Santo as a person is positive, the Cubs were lucky to have him.