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Committee Chairman

Kirk Buchner, "The Committee Chairman", is the owner and operator of the site.  Kirk can be contacted at [email protected] .
March 24 – May 4, 1956
Les Baxter
The Poor People of Paris
We told you that this would be a task that we would eventually get to.

Regular visitors to Notinhalloffame.com might know that we have told you in past updates that we will be looking at the top fifty players in each major North American Franchise (NHL, NFL, MLB and NBA) and last month we debuted just that with the Charlotte Hornets’ Top fifty players of all-time.

Selected second, we go to the National Football League and two time Super Bowl Champion, the Baltimore Ravens, which like Charlotte and all other future selections was done randomly.  Although we are in the playoffs and Baltimore is not a participant, this is up to the end of the 2014 season as we are waiting for the end of the post season before we include 2015 accomplishments.
By know you have noticed that we have finally begun are pieces on all-time 50 players for each major franchise.  Eventually we will take that to the next level where we will examine how they take care of their former players in terms of retired numbers and franchise Hall of Fames, and as such it is major news to us that the Seattle Mariners will be retiring the number of Ken Griffey Jr., who was selected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in what was the largest percentage ever.

The Seattle Mariners will be retiring the number 24 that Griffey Jr. wore.  This is no small honor as with the exception of the league wide mandatory retirement of Jackie Robinson’s #42 this is the first number retired by the organization.

Ken Griffey Jr. played for Seattle from 1989 to 1999 and finished his career there in 2009 to 2010.  In the 13 seasons he was a Mariner, he accumulated 417 Home Runs, 1,216 RBI, 167 Stolen Bases with a Slash Line of .284/.370/.538 and a bWAR of 63.5.  This included four Home Run Titles, ten All Star Games, seven Silver Sluggers, ten Gold Gloves and one Most Valuable Player Award. 

Griffey Jr. will also become the first to enter Cooprstown wearing a Seattle Mariners hat.

We would like to congratulate Ken Griffey Jr. for his latest and deserved accolade. 

Another day, another major Hall of Fame announcement.

Days before the National Championship Game between Clemson and Alabama, the College Football Hall of Fame has announced their Class of 2016 an while we do not rank those who are not in the College Hall, we here at Notinhalloffame.com always are interested to see who gets in!

Here they are!

Marlin Briscoe, Nebraska, Quarterback

Derrick Brooks, Florida State, Linebacker 

Tom Cousineau, Ohio State, Linebacker

Randall Cunningham, UNLV, Quarterback/Punter

Troy Davis, Iowa State, Running Back

William Fuller, North Carolina, Defensive Tackler

Bert Jones, LSU, Quarterback

Tim Krumrie, Wisconsin, Defensive Tackle

Pat McInally, Tight End, Harvard

Herb Orvis, Defensive End, Colorado

Bill Royce, Linebacker, Ashland

Mike Utley, Offensive Guard, Washington State

Scott Woerner, Defensive Back, Georgia

Rod Woodson, Defensive Back, Purdue

Bill Bowes, Coach, New Hampshire

Frank Girardi, Coach, Lycoming



We here would like to congratulate this stellar group to the College Football Hall of Fame!