| I dunno. It's an impossible quiz to please everyone on, as you hint yourself. As a Cubs fan I obviously think the team is the team, and should be merged with its pre-Cubs names, as is done on baseball reference.com; also of course I don't think the hat criteria is ideal at all - I think while it would add tremendous effort, it would also add tremendous value, to count every team a player played for as having had, in him, 1 hall of famer. This would not be perfect but it would take your judgment out of it, while being I think more fair and representative than the hat thing. It would also boost the numbers of a lot of the newer franchises which are woefully underrepresented here. But I just know that as a Cubs fan, Andre Dawson is a Cub. Bruce Sutter is a Cub. Dennis Eckersley is a member of our 1984 team that should've won the world series. And so on. |