Despite the almost Century of Futility, Cubs reliever turned Cardinals nemesis Bruce Sutter received the call from the Hall of Fame today. While Sutter is as deserving as any reliever out there, particularly for popularizing the split-finger baseball, Goose Gossage, Bert Blyleven, Jim Rice and Andre Dawson were also deserving, in my opinion, but didn't come close. For a team that's truly stunk it up for more than a half century, the Cubs seem to have a solid list of players in the Hall (17, not including managers) -- I'm only including those players with more than five of their good years with the Cubs:
Pete Alexander 1918-1926
Cap Anson 1876-1897
Ernie Banks 1953-1971
Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown 1904-1912, 1916
Frank Chance 1898-1912
Kiki Cuyler 1928-1935
Johnny Evers 1902-1913
Clark Griffith 1893-1900
Gabby Hartnett 1922-1940
Billy Herman 1931-1941
Fergie Jenkins 1966-1973, 1982-1983
King Kelly 1880-1886
Ryne Sandberg 1982-1994, 1996-1997
Bruce Sutter 1976-1980
Joe Tinker 1902-1912, 1916
Billy Williams 1959-1974
Hack Wilson 1926-1931
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