On this date

On January 23, 1962, Rapid Robert Feller — arguably the greatest Indian of them all — was elected to the Hall of Fame on the first ballot, along with another great player you might have heard of, a fellow known as Jackie Robinson. Feller got 150 out of 160 votes for the Hall, which means that somehow, 10 writers felt he wasn't worthy. The man won 266 major league games, and would undoubtedly have topped 300 if not for Hitler. Then again, Robinson only got 124 votes, which is just four more than the 75% needed to get in. That's an absolute embarrassment, and probably shows how much racism we still had in this country in 1962.

Fortunately, racism has been eradicated since then. Ahem.