Explain vote if you would.

They both were the best players at their positions for quite a period of time IMO. Boggs might have been the best pure hitter I have ever seen, except for maybe Gwynn.

Both were just great ball players, Snadberg was a good fielder and Boggs was a great hitter

I voted for both. They were simply HOF caliber ballplayers.

Those are going to be the world's dullest induction speeches ever.

Two of the blandest guys in the world - gotta hope for a couple Mike Schmidt moments to liven things up!

heh.

I personally think it was a down year and had there been more great players like Boggs, Sandberg would still be waiting.

sandberg would have been a 1st ballot guy if:

1. mike jackson hadn't have broken his hand that one spring training

2. his wife wasn't sleeping with one of his team mates, causing him to "retire." she was pretty hot there in that miniskirt if you recall his retirement press conference.

 

he compiled most of his stats by the age of 31.

I know this much. I wish we had Ryne Sandberg while he was with the Cubs.

Both players are very deserving despite what uniform Sandberg wore.

 

Boggs, along with Gwynn was one of the top hitters for average of all time. Sandberg was the beginning of the change in how second basemen were viewed, while Ripken was doing the same for shortstops.

 

The only thing I hated about Sandberg is the guy would never dive for a ball. People knocked him for his range, but he consistenty would go deep into the hole or make plays up the middle, so I don't think that was the problem. It was just that he would NEVER dive. Man on 2B, 2 outs late in the game, he still wouldn't dive to keep a ball in the infield, keeping the runner on 2B from scoring. UGh!

 

But that is not enough to keep him out of the Hall. He was an excellent defensive 2B and hit with more power than any 2B ever to that point in the game. Joe Morgan was the only other 2B close to his talent level in my lifetime.