Can you name the franchises which have players in the Baseball Hall of Fame? by MickCannon

Can you name the franchises which have players in the Baseball Hall of Fame?

created by MickCannon

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Source: National Baseball Hall of Fame
Number of players is based on the cap a player wears on his Hall of Fame plaque. This quiz refers only to players, not executives, umpires, etc.
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Number of Players in Hall of Fame	Franchise	Status of Franchise
21		Current MLB Team
17		Franchise Has Relocated (San Francisco Giants)
17		Current MLB Team
12		Current MLB Team
12		Current MLB Team
12		Current MLB Team
10		Current MLB Team
10		Current MLB Team
9		Current MLB Team
9		Franchise Has Relocated (Los Angeles Dodgers)
9		Current MLB Team
9		Current MLB Team
8		Current MLB Team
8		Franchise Has Relocated (Oakland Athletics)
6		Franchise Has Relocated (Atlanta Braves)
5		Negro League Franchise
5		Current MLB Team
5		Current MLB Team
5		Franchise Has Relocated (Minnesota Twins)
4		Negro League Franchise
4		Negro League Franchise
4		Current MLB Team
3		Name Changed (Chicago Cubs)
3		Franchise Has Relocated (Atlanta Braves)
3		Current MLB Team

Number of Players in Hall of Fame	Franchise	Status of Franchise
3		Franchise Has Relocated (San Francisco Giants)
3		Franchise Has Relocated (Baltimore Orioles)
2		Franchise Has Relocated (Atlanta Braves)
2		Now AAA Team
2		Negro League Franchise
2		Name Changed (Cleveland Indians)
2		Negro League Franchise
2		Negro League Franchise
2		Current MLB Team
2		Franchise Has Relocated (Washington Nationals)
2		Negro League Franchise
2		Current MLB Team
2		Negro League Franchise
1		Current MLB Team
1		Name Changed (Cincinnati Reds)
1		Negro League Franchise
1		Franchise Folded
1		Current MLB Team
1		Name Changed (New York Yankees)
1		Current MLB Team
1		Name Changed (Philadelphia Phillies)
1		Negro League Franchise
1		Negro League Franchise
1		Franchise Folded
1		Current MLB Team

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Baseball Franchises With Hall of Famers Quiz

by MickCannon

Created Jul 24, 2010 in Sports
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	MickCannon:	Jul 25th, 2010 at 02:21 GMT	0 points
	Obviously there is some debate to be had on this subject. Some players are considered to be in Cooperstown on multiple teams. Whether or not a franchise is a continuation of a former or entirely new organization is also debatable. As you'll notice, the teams in parentheses are what are popularly considered to be today's state of the given franchise. As always, please offer feedback and corrections (I'm sure there are mistakes in this quiz). Thanks!!!

	Etheridge2:	Jul 25th, 2010 at 03:09 GMT	1 point
	Harmon Killebrew, Rod Carew, and Kirby Puckett are mad at you ;) Yeah lots of debate here.

	sammyhain:	Jul 25th, 2010 at 03:16 GMT	0 points
	Hello. Minnesota Twins.

	mflournoy:	Jul 25th, 2010 at 03:18 GMT	0 points
	Puckett probably wouldn't have much to say about the Twins' omission these days. The Spiders are not the same franchise as the Indians.

	MickCannon:	Jul 25th, 2010 at 03:27 GMT	-2 points
	Thanks guys, fixed the Twins, don't know how I missed that one. As far as the Spiders are concerned, my understanding is that they became the Cleveland Blues and then eventually the Cleveland Indians...

	mflournoy:	Jul 25th, 2010 at 03:33 GMT	0 points
	There were various teams in Cleveland called the Blues, including both the old Spiders, the present day Indians, and one that preceded them both.

	EasyTarget:	Jul 25th, 2010 at 07:40 GMT	0 points
	The Indians are a different franchise than the Spiders. The Spiders were an NL team that folded along with three other teams when the NL contracted from 12 to 8 teams for the 1900 season. The Indians were moved from Grand Rapids to Cleveland for the 1900 season in the AL, which was still a minor league then. See http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/

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	MickCannon:	Jul 25th, 2010 at 19:14 GMT	0 points
	The idea of the hat the player wears on his plaque is directly from Cooperstown itself. The Hall of Fame refers to that franchise which is represented on the has as the player's "primary team."

	PWT3:	Jul 26th, 2010 at 06:12 GMT	-4 points
	That's complete nonsense, I'm sorry. The reason there has to be a 'primary team' is because a player only has one head. He's got to be wearing some kind of hat on the plaque. The naming of a primary team is something necessitated by the actual physical limitation imposed by having only a single hall of fame plaque. So yes the HoF says that, because they have to choose a hat to put on the plaque. We out here in the real world are not so limited. Many players do not have a clear cut primary team - still more played significant years with more than one club. To act as if that's not the case is simply dishonest. Dawson himself wanted to go in as a Cub, and not for the mercenary reasons some other Hall of Famers had wanted to go in for certain teams (which is in fact why the hall started choosing the primary team itself). Dawson thought his time on the Cubs was more significant than his time on the Expos. The Hall of Fame disagreed. You may think its being 'directly from Cooperstown itself' holds great weight - but when weighed against its being 'directly from the player himself', it doesn't mean much to me.