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Schuerholz a frontrunner for HOF enshrinement
- Updated: November 28, 2016
Fifty years ago, a 26-year-old junior high school teacher in Baltimore with a lifelong love affair with baseball made a pitch to then-Orioles owner Jerry Hoffberger, making the case for his hometown O’s to give him a chance to be part of the organization.
John Schuerholz accepted the fact his dreams of playing in the big leagues would never come true, but he knew there had to be some kind of front office job he could handle. All he wanted was a chance.
He got it. Now look at him.
After 50 years in the game, Schuerholz finds himself in consideration for the ultimate recognition of his career. He is among 10 candidates listed on Today’s Game Era ballot for consideration by a 16-member committee for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame next July.
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There are 32 executives already in the Hall of Fame, but if elected, Schuerholz would join four others — Ed Barrow, George Weiss, Branch Rickey and Pat Gillick — as the only inductees who were described by the Hall of Fame at the time of Gillick’s selection as “truly architects” of a team on the field.
Schuerholz is one of three candidates this year — along with former Commissioner Bud Selig and Yankees owner George Steinbrenner — who never played a big league game, but certainly influenced the way the game was played. The seven other nominees are former players, although Davey Johnson and Lou Piniella were nominated for their managerial efforts.
Also on the ballot are Harold Baines, Albert Belle, Will Clark, Orel Hershiser and Mark McGwire, who were previously considered in annual voting by veteran members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of …
