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HOF Candidates: 80-76

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HOF Candidates: 80-76

Feb 28, 2019
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HOF Candidates: 80-76

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Continuing with your votes for the 100 best Hall of Fame candidates. No. 80: Jimmy Wynn Score: 29.81 "The first time a sportswriter saw James Sherman Wynn hit a curveball 450 feet out over the Astrodome, he looked at the dimensions of the home run, and then the dimensions of the home run hitter, and immediately thought of pocket battleships, toy bulldogs, snub-nosed revolvers -- and came up with the compromise descriptive metaphor, 'The Toy Cannon.'"

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