The Hall of Fame Season (as we like to call November to early February) is in full swing with the significant announcement that Dick Allen and Dave Parker has been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Classic Baseball Era Committee.  That specific group looked at the period from Baseball’s beginning to 1980.

Parker received 14 votes, and Allen received 13.  Twelve votes were needed (75%) were required to enter Cooperstown.

Dave Parker:  Parker led Pittsburgh to a World Series Championship in 1979 and won a second ring a decade later with Oakland.  A six-time All-Star with three Silver Sluggers, Parker won the 1978 National League MVP.  He had 339 career Home Runs and 1,493 RBIs.  Previously, Parker’s best finish on his previous three Veteran’s Ballots was 43.8% in 2020.  Parker is 73 years old.

Dick Allen:   Allen finally got in on his sixth try on a Veteran’s ballot after falling short by one vote the last two attempts (2015 & 2022).  Allen was the 1972 American League MVP (with Chicago). Over a 15-year career, he hit 351 Home Runs with 1,119 RBIs. He was also a seven-time All-Star, two-time OBP leader, three-time Slugging Champion, and four-time leader in OPS.

Tommy John received seven votes, and the other five nominees (Ken Boyer, John Donaldson, Steve Garvey, Vic Harris, and Luis Tiant) failed to receive at least five votes and their finish was not published.

Parker and Allen will be joined by the former players who will advance on the Baseball Writer’s Modern Ballot.

Regular visitors of Notinhalloffame.com know that we are slowly working on the top 50 of every major team in the NHL, NBA, NFL, and MLB. Once that is done, we will examine how each team honors its past players, coaches, and executives. As such, it is important to us that the Tampa Bay Lightning have selected Brian Bradley and Rick Peckham to their franchise Hall of Fame.

Bradley and Peckham join Martin St. Louis, Vincent Lecavalier, Phil Esposito, Brad Richards, and Dave Andreychuk.  The other six Finalists were Henry Paul, Jay Feaster, Pavel Kubina, Nikolai Khabibulin, Ben Bishop, and Ryan Callahan.

Bradley was an original member of the Lightning, having been drafted by the Lighting in the 1992 Expansion Draft.  Joining the new squad at 28, Bradley, who had never scored 50 Points in a season, exploded for 86 in Tampa’s inaugural year and went to his first All-Star Game.  He was an All-Star again the year after and had two more 60-plus Point campaigns with the Bolts.  Overall, Bradley compiled 300 Points in 328 Games in Tampa Bay.

Peckham was the play-by-play broadcaster for the Hartford Whalers from 1984 to 1995 and became Tampa Bay’s lead voice from 1995 to 2020.  He earned the prestigious Foster Hewitt Memorial Award in 2020.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to congratulate the impending members of the Tampa Bay Lightning Hall of Fame.

1970 SEMI-FINAL RESULTS:

Thank you for all of your participation in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project. If you are unaware of what that is, we acted like the PFHOF had its first class in January 1946.

We have completed the years up to 1968.

For “1970,” a Preliminary Vote with nearly 100 players whose playing career ended by 1961. We are also following the structure in that players have 20 years of eligibility, and if they do not make it into the Hall, they are relegated to the Senior Pool.

Each voter was asked to select 25 names from the preliminary list, and the top 25 vote-getters were named Semi-Finalists.

A week later, the voters were asked to pick 15 names from the 25 Semi-Finalists, and next week, they will pick five from the remaining 15. We will continue this process weekly until we catch up to the current year.

31 Votes took place, with the top fifteen advancing.

This is for the “Modern Era”

Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals:

This is for the “Senior Era”

*Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals:

This is for the “Senior Era”

*Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals:

We will post the Class of the 1970 Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project next Saturday.

Thank you to all who contributed. If you want to be part of this project, please let us know!

The International Boxing Hall of Fame has announced the class of 2025, which will include Manny Pacquiao, the only eight-division champion in the sport's history.

From the Philippines, Pacquiao amassed a record of 62-8-2 (39 KO), and the list of accolades is staggering:

WBC Flyweight Champion

Lineal Flyweight Champion

IBF Super Bantamweight Champion

The Ring Featherweight Champion

Lineal Featherweight Champion

The Ring Super Featherweight Champion

WBC Super Featherweight Champion

Lineal Super Featherweight Champion

WBC Lightweight Champion

The Ring Light Welterweight Champion

IBO Light Welterweight Champion

Lineal Light Welterweight Champion

WBA Welterweight Champion

WBO Welterweight Champion

Lineal Welterweight Champion

WBA Super Welterweight Champion

WBC Super Welterweight Champion

That is a lot of titles, isn’t it?

The men he beat are a who’s who of the lighter weights over the last thirty years, which include

Chatchai Sasakul

Juan Manuel Marquez

Erik Morales

Oscar Larios

Marco Antonio Barrera

David Diaz

Oscar De La Hoya

Ricky Hatton

Miguel Cotto

Joshua Clottey

Antonio Margarito

Shane Mosley

Timothy Bradley

Chris Algieri

Jessie Vargas

Adrien Broner

Keith Thurman

An icon in his native Philippines, Pacquiao was a former senator, a movie star, and one of the kings of pay per view.  His 2015 contest with Floyd Mayweather Jr set PPV records, generating over four million buys and 400 million in revenue.  Pacquiao is considered one of the best boxers of all time and is the undisputed headliner of this class.

The other inductees are:

Michael Nunn (Men’s Modern Boxers):  Nunn won the IBF Middleweight Championship in 1988 from Frank Tate and successfully defended it five times before dropping the strap to James Toney.  He later moved up in weight, winning the WBA Super Middleweight Championship from Victor Cordoba in 1992, and held that for three defenses before Steve Little took it from him in 1994.  Nunn was also the Lineal Champion in both Middleweight and Super Middleweight, with an overall record of 58-4 (38 KO).

Vinny Paz (Men’s Modern Boxers):  Born (and competed as) Vinny Pazienza, the orthodox stance boxer won the IBF Lightweight Title in 1987 by beating Greg Haugen, though he would lose it back to him in his first defense.  He later tried to win the Light Welterweight three times, but when he moved up in weight, he found success by winning the IBF and WBA Light Middleweight Titles.  Paz had a lifetime record of 50-10 (30 KO).

Yessica Chavez (Women’s Modern Boxers).  Chavez won the IBF Light Flyweight Title in 2011 and four years later captured the WBC Flyweight Title.  She had a record of 32-5-3 (4 KO).

Anne Sophie Mathis (Women’s Modern Boxers).  From France, Mathis was the WBA Super Lightweight Champion (2006-08), WBC Super Lightweight Champion (2008) and WBA Welterweight Champion.  She had a record of 27-4-1-1 (23 KO).

Mary Jo Sanders (Women’s Modern Boxers).  Sanders has a lifetime record of 25-1-1 (8 KO) and is a former WBC Female Super Lightweight and welterweight Champion.

Cat Davis (Trailblazer):  Davis fought in the late 70s and was the first woman to grace the cover of Ring Magazine.  She had a record of 12-0-1 (12 KO)

Kenny Bayless (Non-Participant).  Referee Kenny Bayless officiated many of the super fights from 2004 to 2020.

Al Garvin (Non-Participant).  Al Garvin enters the Hall as a highly respected cut man.

Harry Gibbs (Non-Participant).  From England, Gibbs was a long time referee and judge.

Ross Greenburg (Observer):  Greenburg was a top executive at HBO Sports, and was a massive part on boxing’s growth on the channel.

Randy Gordon (Observer):  Gordon is a long time boxing journalist and was the chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission.

Rodrigo Valdez (Old-Timer).  The Colombian middleweight was a two-time Middleweight Champion in the 1970s who had a record of 63-8-2 (43 KO).

Owen Swift (Pioneer).  They went way back with this induction, as Swift was a Lightweight pugilist in the 1830s.  The Englishman had a record of 14-2.

Induction weekend will take place on June 5-8, 2025.