The 1966 ballot also abounded with players from those teams, with Roy Campanella, Pee Wee Reese, Carl Erskine and Carl Furillo receiving votes.

You can enable both via your browser's preference settings. I didn't dodge bullets, but I'm proud of my contribution.”Newcombe’s graciousness and willingness to serve belies deeper injustice.Newcombe would finish his big-league career in 1960 with a record of 149-90. In 1949, Don Newcombe arrived on the Brooklyn Dodgers and prompty began making up for lost time.The 23-year-old Newcombe had signed with the Dodgers as an amateur free agent in early 1946 after spending two years in the Negro Leagues. Ted Williams took the opportunity during his induction speech that summer to make a brief but historic plug calling for the enshrinement of Negro League greats such as Satchel Paige. We welcome you to use a COMC account to combine your purchases and ship them at a later time. Full Site Menu. Within half a decade, Negro League inductions began in earnest.Perhaps if Newcombe had debuted on the ballot in the years after Williams’ speech, he might have picked up a few more votes to start, which could have aided his candidacy significantly.How a holdover Hall of Fame candidate fares and whether they can progress to the necessary 75 percent of the vote from the writers hinges on where they start out. Current HOF eligibility: Could be considered in the 2020 Golden Days Era Committee vote.

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Joe Dimaggio HOF PM10 1950's Yankee Stadium Pin Blue Background. If he hadn’t lost two prime seasons to Korea or if professional baseball had integrated sooner and allowed Newcombe to season in the minors earlier and make the majors sooner, he might have enough wins to have made the Hall of Fame years ago.As it stands, Newcombe might be the greatest victim of bad timing in baseball history.Maybe Newcombe seemed like an easy no when he first became eligible for Cooperstown on the Baseball Writers' Association of America’s ballot in 1966, receiving just 2.3 percent of the vote.Newcombe’s big-league career might have ended when it did in part because of alcoholism, with Newcombe not achieving sobriety until 1967.

It’s difficult to write that. Newcombe became an instant star in the majors, going 56-28 with a 3.39 ERA and helping the Dodgers make runs at the National League pennant each of his first three seasons. Due to COVID-19, all shipping is experiencing significant delays. Newcombe, who’d been drafted into the military in 1950, went off for a two-year hitch during the Korean War.

Newcombe was the pitching star on the best NL team of the 1950s. To Newcombe’s credit, he went the full 15 years on the writers’ ballot but never came close to induction with the BBWAA, peaking at 15.3 percent of the vote in his final year in 1980.Newcombe hasn’t gotten much traction, either, since then through the Hall’s setup for veteran candidates.