MT is all wrong. Check the band on Basketball Jones: On Guitar, George Harrison on Keyboards, Nicky Hopkins, Billy Preston and Carole King, on bass, Klaus Vorman, drums Jim Keltner and Jim Karsten, Sax Tom Scott, background singers include Ronnie Spector and Michelle Phillips. On of the great collections of musicians ever!

Steve Hartman,

You talk about Steve Garvey, who I admired growing up, but Gil Hodges truly deserves to be in the Hall of Fame.

How many first basemen – or players at other positions for that matter – accomplished anything equivalent to the following by the end of Hodges’ playing era:

· All-time career right-handed home run hitter in their league
· All-time career Grand Slam hitter in their league
· Had 100 or more RBI for seven consecutive years
· Had 30 or more HR six times, five consecutively
· Won three Gold Gloves (first three awarded; they started giving them in 1957, toward end of his career)
· Seven World Series appearances

Hodges was the dominating first baseman of his era.