The New York Yankees have had some of the best players in baseball in their 107-year glorious history. Many of those players are in the American Baseball Hall of Fame, but many Yankee greats are not. Many wonder why players like Thurman Munson, Bernie Williams, and Andy Pettitte aren’t in that prestigious group of baseball immortals.
Although many believe the baseball writers who select and vote on the nominees have a bias against the Yankees, there is no simple answer. I can’t verify or deny that notion. Players are currently inducted into the Hall of Fame through election by either the Baseball Writers’ Association of America (or BBWAA) or the Veterans Committee, which now consists of four subcommittees of which considers and votes for candidates from a separate era of baseball.