its amazing how few Modern HOFers played for only one team

[ThoseBackPages]

Of HOFers that started in the 60s:

Yastrzemski
Stargell
Palmer
Bench

HOFers from the 70s:

Schmidt
Brett
Yount
Jim Rice

HOFers of the 80s:

Ripken
Gwynn
Puckett

 

[Krom]

Its a shame more than amazing .

 

[gt2590]

The 90s group will be VERY small but about the same size as recent decades:

Jeter
Ichiro
Pujols (?)
Rivera
Chipper Jones

Anybody I miss?

 

[PaulKonerkbro]

NNNNNIIIIIICCEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

 

[hoopster3977]

The reason for this can be described in 2 words-Free Agency

 

[carlitoson]

Larkin will eventually get in, IMO.

 

[mlbsalltimegreats]

The 90s group will be VERY small but about the same size as recent decades:

Jeter
Ichiro
Pujols (?)
Rivera
Chipper Jones

Anybody I miss?

Vlad!

 

[zep33]

Bryce Harper

 

[gt2590]

The 90s group will be VERY small but about the same size as recent decades:

Jeter
Ichiro
Pujols (?)
Rivera
Chipper Jones

Anybody I miss?

Vlad!

My list is not all the HOFers from the 90s, only the ones with just one team...

 

[dietdew]

There are probably less old time players than you'd think that played for more than one team. I could only find two inducted before 1942 on Baseball-Reference that only played for one team: Walter Johnson and Lou Gehrig.

 

[gt2590]

Add Biggio to one of the Lists...

 

[Y4NK335]

Add Biggio to one of the Lists...

Todd Helton

 

[fkw]

There will be more players in the future than in the past, because of long term contracts IMO....

There are just as many players in last 40 years who did this as in the past, nothing has changed, it rare overall, especially for good players who played more than 15 years... but some alos started in the PCL on purpose (more $$ and closer to home), and some who had careers shortened by death ie Youngs, Joss, Gehrig, etc.

Off the top of my head.... Players who started before WWII.... (to add to Gehrig, W.Johnson) .........Dickey, DiMaggio, Williams, Doerr, Ott, Feller, Hubbell, T.Jackson, Joss, Youngs, Reese, Rizzuto, Terry, etc. Im sure there are more too .......Many Giants in this list

 

[Card Magnet]

You forgot Roberto Clemente.

 

[Original Boski]

The reason for this can be described in 2 words-Free Agency

QFFT.

 

[elmalo]

That is bc until the mid 70's the reserve clause bound players to one team. The players had no rights and the owners had all of the power.

 

[dietdew]

There are 47 HOFers who played for one team according to this which if you figure 9 decades of modern eligible players 1900s-1980s averages to a little over 5 per decade.

/http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/10/hall-of-famers-who-played-for-one-team/

It could be less; there are several on the list that could be considered "borderline" who may or may not have gotten a boost in HOF voting because they only played in one place.

 

[braves1047]

I think there are 2 reasons for only a few playing with one team the whole career.
1. Free agency, I need a 30million a year contract (A.Pujols lol)
2. Not wanting to stop playing. Many plays dont want to quiet when they should. I can think of Tom Glavine and Greg Maddux as an example. When they left the braves they both had ok to subpar years. Should have just hung it up.
Just my 2 cents.

 

[reljac]

Bryce Harper

He hasn't been put in already? I thought with all this hype and mad scramble they wouldn't just gone ahead and added him.

 

[gmarutiak]

You forgot Roberto Clemente.

Not forgotten. Started in the '50s.