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Why not just put Charlie Manuel in the Hall of Fame?

There’s not a lot of ways to get into the Hall of Fame.

You can be voted in by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, a finicky quorum of irritated baseball observers who spend a large part of the calendar year complaining and contradicting each other. As a potential inductee, getting them to let you in as a fringe candidate is like trying to win a baseball game as the baseball while each player plays under their own individual set of rules.

You can do something cool once as an MLB player and send in the piece of equipment you used while doing it.