[VanillaGorilla]

Tommie Agee was a fine CFer. Heck, 4 Gold Gloves is really good. The writera were in no way responding to the Vet Committee inducting a CFer. The writers were going to vote in Willie Mays on his first ballot, no matter what the VC did.

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Willie Mays was selected by the Nationals with the 6th pick of the 2064 draft. 5 teams fired their scouts shortly thereafter.

Willie Mays is in the upper echelon of players to ever play IRL, and to ever play in this league. He is part of any argument for best player ever, in both.

He had a nice rookie season with 20 HR and 103 RBI. A .268 batting average was fine, but not ROY stuff.

Over the next 16 seasons he would bat at least .300, have an OBP of at least .368, and never have a slg% that was not above .600. Coincidentally (?) he would appear in 16 All Star games.

Willie Mays played in 25 big league seasons, retiring after the 2089 campaign.

He posted a career slash line that rivals any other: 325/392/650 (34th, between Al Oliver and Joe Rudi/t-89th, Kevin Mitchell and Reggie Jackson/10th, one spot behind Kevin Mitchell).

Mays ranks 14th on the career OPS list, placing between Kevin Mitchell and Barry Bonds.

He collected 3377 base hits (3rd, between Shoeless Joe Jackson and Hank Aaron), 880 of which were HR (4th, between Hank Greenberg and Harmon Killebrew). He hit a cool looking 555 doubles (26th, one fewer than Bill White and one more than Hamk Aaron) and 97 triples (t-35d, George Brett). He tallied 2297 RBI ( 2nd, trailing leader Hank Aaron and ahead of Hank Greenberg) and crossed the plate, himself, 2139 times (3rd, bewteen Barry Bonds and Hank Aaron). He drew 1121 walks (40th) and swiped 216 bases, to boot.

Speaking of "boot", he did that rarely, as his 5 CF Gold Gloves attest.

11 times he hit 40 HR in a season.
5 times he hit 50 HR in a season.
Twice he hit 60 HR.

10 times he had over 100 RBI in a season. 9 of those times he had at least 125. In each of the 9 seasons in which he had 125 RBI, he scored at least 100 runs.

8 times he had a WAR over 10.0 for a season. He enters the HOF as the career leader in WAR.

Mays won 3 MVP awards. It's hard to pin down his best year, but 67 HR, 158 RBI, and 145 runs scored with a slash of 355/419/792 (npa OPS+ 217) in 2069 is definitely in the top three.

This came on the heels of a 2068 season in which he slashed 353/420/694 with 47 HR and led the Nats to a WS win. He is the first player from this team to enter the HOF.

By 2070 the Nats had added Prince Fielder and a 40 year-old Harmon Killebrew, and won another WS. Mays launched 64 HR in the regular season.

Now a Philadelphia Phillie, in 2083 a 37 year-old mays played in only 80 regular season games, but still hit 31 HR. He had, perhaps, the greates post season ever leading the Phillies to the crown as he smacked 11 HR in 11 games while slashing 438/481/1125....holy moly. He is the first player from this team to enter the HOF.

At the age of 40, Mays won his 4th WS, this time as an Angel. He is the first player from this team to enter the HOF.

Mays enters the HOF as the career leader in total bases with 6766.

This HOF has reached the point of universal harmony as, for the third time, Willie, Mickey, and The Duke are all enshrined.

Black Ink: 65 (57)
Gray Ink: 247 (337)
HOFm: 446.5 (376)
HOFs: 88 (76)

Gorilla Composite: 8.9 (8.4)

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Tommie Agee enters his 2nd OOTP HOF.
Willie Mays has entered all three OOTP HOF.

As the 159th entrant, here, Mays is the 50th RL HOFer to be inducted.

Notable players joining the league in 2095 include: Tex Erwin, Mack Jones, Davey Lopes, Cesar Tovar, Alan Benes, Cole Hamels, Billy Wagner, Dennis Martinez, Tim Teufel, and Old Hoss Radbourn.