The Top 10 Shortstops in Baseball's Hall of Fame

There are presently 23 Shortstops in the Hall of Fame. Two of them are not included in these computations: Pop Lloyd and Willie Wells, both great players, both from the Negro Leagues with no irrefutable or credible statistics to be found anywhere.

Therefore we have a group of 21 being narrowed to 10 by the very statistics they played a career to accumulate.

Don’t everybody start right off telling me that Cal Ripken is the best shortstop ever. I don’t believe it and neither should you. All of these players are great; there should never be a question about that.

There should also be no question that some are, or were obviously better than others. The only meaningful and fair way of creating a Top 10 list is by the numbers they amassed.

It would be easy just to say here is my Top 10, according to my favorites: Banks, Wagner, Vaughan, Boudreau, Cronin, Ripken, Yount, Appling, Jennings and Davis.

All that would give us; however is a perfect portrait painted by me. What is that worth? Not much, therefore I plod ahead.

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Sports World unite. Here is the Top 10 Shortstops who are currently in the Hall of Fame.

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