Not in Hall of Fame News

Yes, we know that this is taking a while! As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team.  That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity.  As such, we are very happy to present our post 2022 revision of our top Colorado Rockies. As for all of our top 50 players in basketball we look at the following: 1.  Advanced Statistics. 2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National…

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 intend to look at how each team honor their past players, coaches and executives.  As such, we are pleased to comment on the Los Angeles Lakers’ retirement of Pau Gasol’s number #16 last night. Debuting in the NBA for the Memphis Grizzlies in 2001, the 7’ 1” Center, becoming the first European to win the Rookie of the Year.  An All-Star for Memphis in 2006, Gasol never had a year where his PPG…

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 intend to look at how each team honor their past players, coaches and executives.  As such, that the Toronto Blue Jays will be inducting Jose Bautista into their Level of Excellence. Jose Bautista's success in emerging as one of the game's top power hitters might be one of the biggest “Where the hell did this come from?” stories in Baseball. Bautista was barely even a journeyman, playing briefly for Baltimore, Tampa Bay.…

The World Curling Hall of Fame will be inducting five new members into their institution; three curlers and two from the builders category. The new entrants are: Kate Caithness, Scotland (Builder):  Caithness was the World Curling President from 2010 to 2022, and helped propel Wheelchair Curling into the Paralympics. Jack Lynch, Canada (Builder):  Lynch was well-respected journalist, who covered curling mostly in Quebec.  He was pivotal in increasing membership associations that helped qualify Curling as an Olympic sport. Ewan MacDonald, Scotland (Curler):  MacDonald is a three-time World Champion (1999, 2006 & 2010), a two-time European Champion (1999 & 2008) and he represented Scotland in…

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 intend to look at how each team honor their past players, coaches and executives.  This will eventually extend towards other leagues.  As such, it is important to us that the Sarnia Sting of the Ontario Hockey League have announced that the formation of their franchise Hall of Fame. The Sting were originally the Cornwall Royals of the QMJHL in 1969, and would transfer to Newmarket in 1992.  After three years, in 1994, the organization…