More times than not in its 80-year voting history, the Baseball Hall of Fame has inducted stellar candidates. There are just over 300 people enshrined in Cooperstown as of this writing, the vast majority highly qualified.
Every now and then, though, an undeserving candidate gets in Cooperstown, one without the numbers or a personal story that can compensate for underwhelming stats. The following are, in many cases, men who got in Cooperstown in years where: several other people were inducted; they had friends on the selection committees; or, in at least one instance, the committee that inducted them made a mistake.