It is another big day for us at Notinhalloffame.com!

Last December, The Fictitious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced it’s third full class as voted by a one year long vote by the public.

That class comprised of Wyld Stallyns and Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem. They joined previous inductees, Gorillaz, Tenacious D, Spinal Tap, The Blues Brothers and The Monkees.

Like in previous years, the opening round began with over 500 Fictional Musicians which has been reduced to 15 Fictional Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Finalists.

The 15 Fictitious Rock and Roll Hall Semi-Finalists are:

Alvin & the Chipmunks (Alvin & the Chipmunks)

Archies, The (The Archies)

Banana Splits (The Banana Splits)

Be-Sharps, The (The Simpsons)

Bleeding Gums Murphy (The Simpsons)

Dethklok (Metapcolypse)

Jem and the Holograms (Jem and the Holograms)

Josie & the Pussycats (The Archies & Josie & The Pussycats)

Marvin Berry & the Starlighters (Back to the Future)

Otis Day & The Knights (Animal House)

Rutles, The (The Rutles)

Soggy Bottom Boys, The (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)

Stillwater (Almost Famous)

Wonders, The (That Thing You Do!)

Voting will be up until late December where the two top vote getters will become the Class of 2018.

You can vote here: http://www.notinhalloffame.com/ficitious-rock-and-roll-voting/2018-final-round

You know what we want you to do!

Cast your vote and tell us who should be in the next Fictitious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class!

As always we here at Notinhalloffame.com thank you for your support!

The American Hockey League has announced the Hall of Fame Class of 2019, which will be the 14th Class of the 80 year old league. The AHL has largely served as a feeder system to the National Hockey League and is now completely affiliated with the NHL.

The new members will be:

John Anderson:

Anderson spent 17 seasons in the NHL as a player and was a player/coach for the New Haven Nighthawks in 1991/92 where he was a First Team All Star and would win the Fred T. Hunt Memorial Award. He would become a full-time coach in 1995 and was poached by the Chicago Wolves in the IHL and helmed them to two Turner Cups. When the franchise was absorbed into the AHL, he would take the team to two Calder Cup wins. He is fifth all-time in coaching wins in the AHL.

Don Cherry:

Before he became an icon in Hockey Night in Canada Don Cherry played 767 Games as a Defenceman for he Hershey Bears, Springfield Indians and Rochester Americans where he recorded 259 Points and well over 1,000 Penalty Minutes. He would become a player/coach for the Americans and was the AHL Coach of the Year in 1974 when he was then a full time coach.

Murray Eaves:

Eaves is the AHL’s all-time leader in Points per Game (1.27) and is one of two players who scored 115 Points or more in two seasons. The two time Fred T. Hunt Memorial Award winner played for Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia and Adirondack and he scored 680 Points in the league.

Brad Smyth:

Smyth scored 50 Goals twice in the AHL and he had 326 total and would score 667 Points in 610 Games. Smyth played for Springfield, Carolina, Hartford, Binghamton and Manchester and he would help Hartford win the Calder Cup in 2000.

The ceremony will take place on January 28, 2019.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to congratulate the members of the American Hockey League Class of 2019.

The World Golf Hall of Fame has announced the 15 Finalists in four categories, Male Competitors (4), Female Competitors (5), Lifetime Achievement (3) and Veterans (3). A Sub-Committee of 20 people decided the Finalists, six of which are Hall of Famers.

The Finalists are:

Male Competitors:

Reteif Goosen: From South Africa, Goosen won 33 times on tour and was the 2001 and 2004 U.S. Open winner. He is also a six time Presidents Cup winner.

Graham Marsh: The Australian won 50 tournaments, 20 of which were on the Asian Tour.

Corey Pavin: Pavin won 24 tournaments, which included 15 on the PGA Tour. Pavin won the 1995 U.S. Open and four Ryder Cups and was also named the PGA Player of the Year in 1991.

Hal Sutton: Sutton won 14 PGA Tournaments, three of which were Majors (the 1983 and 2000 Players Championship and 1983 PGA Championship). He as also a five time Ryder Cup Champion and was the 1983 PGA Player of the Year.

Female Competitors:

Susie Berning: Berning won 11 LPGA titles, which included four majors; the 1965 Western Open and the 1968, 1972 & 1973 U.S. Women’s Open Championship.

Beverly Hanson: Hanson won 17 times on the LPGA including the 1955 LPGA Championship, 1956 Women’s Western Open and the 1958 Titleholders Championship.

Sandra Palmer: Palmer won 21 tournaments, 19 of which were on the LPGA circuit. Palmer was named the LPGA Player of the Year while winning the U.S. Open that year.

Dottie Pepper: Pepper was the LGPA Player of the Year in 1992 and she won the Kraft Nabisco Championship twice (1992 & 1999). She would win 17 tournaments on the LPGA circuit.

Jan Stephenson: Stephenson won 16 LPGA tournaments and the Australian won three Majors, 1981 du Maurier Classic, the 1982 LPGA Championship and the 1983 U.S. Women’s Open.

Lifetime Achievement:

Peggy Kirk Bell: Bell was a charter member of the LPGA in 1950 and she would win the Titleholders Championship in 1949. She would achieve more notoriety as an instructor as she would become the first woman to be named in the World Golf Teachers Hall of Fame.

Billy Payne: Payne was the Chairman of the Augusta National Golf Club from 2006 to 2017.

Dennis Walters: Walters was a strong golfer who was paralyzed at age 24 due to a golf cart accident but he became a trick shot artist and gave golf clinics throughout the world.

Veterans:

Jim Ferrier: The Australian star won 18 Titles on the PGA Tour, which was highlighted winning the 1947 PGA Championship. He was also a four time Australian Amateur Champion.

Catherine Lacoste: Lacoste won the 1967 U.S. Open as an amateur (the only one to do so) and the native of France also won the U.S. and British Women’s Amateur Championship in 1969.

Calvin Peete: Peete won 12 Tournaments on the PGA Tour and was a two time Ryder Cup Champion. He also won the Players Championship in 1985.

To gain induction, the finalist must receive 75% of the vote. The Class of 2019 will be announced on October 10 and the ceremony will take place on June 10, 2019.

We will certainly be watching to see who will comprise the 2019 Hall of Fame Class.

Now that the Baseball regular season is over we know that there will be significant retirements occurring in the next few months but on the last weekend we knew that we saw that end of David Wright’s career. Wright played two games after coming back from serious injury that prematurely ended his 2016 season. Those were his first games back in 855 days

Wright made his Major League debut in 2004 with the New York Mets, which would be the only franchise that he ever played for. Wright would prove to very good hitter as he batted .300 five times in a row (2005-09) and two more (2012-13) and he put forth decent power numbers with five 25 Home Run seasons. He would finish in the top ten in National League MVP voting four times and was a two time Silver Slugger and two time Gold Glove winner.

Wright retires with 1,777 Hits, 242 Home Runs a .296/.376/.491 Slash Line and a bWAR of 50.4. He is Hall of Fame eligible in 2024 and it will be interesting to see what percentage of the votes that he will tabulate. It will be difficult for the seven time All Star to get past the first round as while he has solid metrics in both traditional and advanced statistics but they accumulatively do not measure up to other Hall of Fame Third Basemen.

While we don’t think he will be enshrined in Cooperstown there is a good chance that he will receive a post career honor by the New York Mets.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to wish David Wright the best in his post-playing career.