Present baseball All-Stars lack past glitter

Bud Selig puff you up and about baseball Crow's "Renaissance" to refer to during his tenure as Commissioner, later, when the "golden era".
He said it in 2004, it was in 2006 and said it again in 2007 All-Star Game celebration in San Francisco. He believes it. And he is correct in the literal sense. Baseball has never been more gold than during his 18 years as commissioner removed. It is very, very wealthy.
But these self-serving claim makes Bud as someone who keeps the money first and last means of measurement. If the Commish talents were considered - much less integrity - a part of the equation, he might gag on the brutal truth.
The All-Star game played Tuesday in Anaheim, despite the many wonderful players, such as the latest sobering example that All-Stars are not what they used to be. Of the 68 men on the AL and NL rosters, no more than six are safe in the Hall of Fame in force.
To repeat, less than 10 percent of players on the combined All-Star game schedules have earned the game the greatest single honor.
Take away Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera and Alex Rodriguez, three New York Yankees certainly destined for the wing at Cooperstown, and we are with Albert Pujols, Ichiro Suzuki and Vladimir Guerrero left - and perhaps fourth Yankee, Andy Pettitte.
Sorry Bud, but six or seven Hall of Fame in an All-Star game to not make a golden age.
The golden age
was almost 50 years ago, with the tremendous influx of talented players from the African-American and Latino descent, like Major League Baseball moved to atone for sins discriminatory, possibly, taking into account Talent skin color.
That is why the 1960s and 70s were a time when most teams had at least one All-Star for the management Hall. Some had several. Who needs a Home Run Derby, when a collection of legends?
Consider the '71 game in Detroit. The rosters were much smaller then, with a combined 56 players. More than a third, 20, went to the Hall of Fame.
The roster sent 11 players earned NL, and most have their busts. Five of the eight starters Position: Catcher Johnny Bench, first baseman, and Willie McCovey outfielder Henry Aaron, Willie Mays and Willie Stargell. Four pitchers: Steve Carlton, Ferguson Jenkins, Juan Marichal and Tom Seaver. Heck, Lou Brock and Roberto Clemente, both first round, were recruits reserves.
Pete Rose, should be by merit, 12 Hall of Fame is that in NL club.
Among the nine players headed for Cooperstown AL were second baseman Rod Carew, third baseman Brooks Robinson, Luis Aparicio, shortstop and outfield player Frank Robinson and Carl Yastrzemski. Reserves include Reggie Jackson, Al Kaline and Harmon Killebrew.
Although only one pitcher, Jim Palmer, was admitted, a different - Vida Blue - put up numbers comparable to Catfish Hunter and Don Drysdale, both in the hall.
Such abundant talent was not limited to '71. It was time, the norm. From 1964 to 1974, featured all-star games an average of 18 Hall of Fame player. Of the 56 men on the rosters for the '72 game, 23 to Cooperstown wound.
Selig knew his story well enough. He knows better. Apparently his scorecard revenue covers instead of quality.
To understand this is not to reduce the achievements of today's players. This is not the performance improvement culture that is permeated denigrate Selig's term, or that all-star games are not worth seeing.
The games are not what they once were. They have, rather, a collection of men paying adult at the highest level in order. The players in Anaheim on Tuesday did not have the cachet of wealth found during the actual flowering season. This could explain the record-low TV ratings.
The all six aside, some of the other credentials for the Hall to earn. Pettitte should be considered and could get it. Roy Halladay is great, but even at 33, it is too early to know. And it is far too early for the likes of Miguel Cabrera and Joe Wall, both 27, or CC Sabathia, who has 29 Career statistics similar to Halladay's.
They play a fine game of baseball, yes, but they do not play in the Golden Age, but the Golden Age, the era of prosperity. Many would not come near an all-star game 40 years ago.
This is how it was for much of Selig's term. When he and his cronies placed quality of staff before growth of the profit - a novel concept, I know - they would know the definition of the golden age.
It is when a first ballot Hall of Fame come from the bench in the All-Star Game