I did a blog as to why he should be inducted, regarding his influnce and why he was so well loved. At the end, I said, he didn't necessarily need the Hall, but it needed him.
Gil's record as a Dodger and manager of the Mets can speak for itself. There are no Gil Hodges fans who will believe your insane postings nor believe that you know any former Mets players.
@cmf43211 You are another person whose slander should be deleted from this YouTube site. Ron Swoboda has never had anything but nice things to say about Gil Hodges and anyone who is a Gil Hodges fan would never believe any of your lies.
ShamWasBetter's derogatory and false comments about Gil Hodges should be removed from this YouTube site. His comments are pure slander against Gil Hodges good name and trash like Sham's should not be allowed on YouTube.
@GilHodgesFan maybe you are Gil Hodges #1 fan because you know more about old gil Hodges than just as his failures at managing and hitting a baseball?I think that you are Gil Hodges ex Gay lover and you are the one he used to order to fuck Gay ball players in their mouths and asses.I am a friend of Don Hahn and Ronnie Swoboda,who both sware that Hodges was a turd burgler.
You know he was a big part of the 55 Dodgers he could hit too. Its a shame a real shame Gil needs to be in the Hall. He was a great Manager too. The Hall has sinned it really has.
Mr. Ronnie G - You are so right about Gil Hodges representing the best in baseball and the best in mankind. Not only the HOF but sports in general needs more upstanding men of integrity like Gil. I don't think you could find anything that could beat Brooklyn Dodger baseball at Ebbets Field. The regulars, the Sym-phony, Hilda and her cowbell, Happy Chandler. It was its own litte community and it is something baseball won't ever see again. We do need Gil in the HOF
@GilHodgesFan I spoke with Art Shamsky and Rusty Staub who are both Gay ex ballplayers and they both confirmed that Gil Hodges was a cross dresser and a bisexual who would aword playing time to players who would put out for him sexualy as well as swallow his big dick without gagging.This is the only explanation to how George Theodore made the Mets squad all those years he had a 13 inch penis and a .166 batting average!!
Gil Hodges, standing at 1st base in a small stadium in Brooklyn, represented the best in baseball and the best in mankind. The HOF needs real baseball heros and Hodges was, indeed, one of those. We are, one and all, SO fortunate to have Gil as our baseball hero. He will ALWAYS be in our hearts and that is more important than any building in Cooperstown, New York.
@MrRonnieG Agreed. He should be in the HOF. It's a damned shame he isn't. And Gil died awful young. If memory serves me, he had a massive heart attack while playing golf.
a friend and I talked to a big sportswriter --no help--screw the hall of fame--it is the hall of SHAME, There is a Brooklyn Dodger hall of fame I think--they all belong there--maybe Yogi the only ugh Yankee who could have been a Brooklyn Dodger.
They should have inducted Gil into the Hall when he died so suddenly in 1972. He was the most respected manager in the game at the time and a great beneficial influence on all his players. He was a very good manager for Washington and a great manager for the Mets!...and oh yeah he could hit too...:-0
My first ever baseball game at age 8 at the L.A. Coliseum with the Dodgers-Cardinals.......a big crowd around Stan Musial to get his autograph and I walked over near the Dodger dugout and got to shake Gil Hodges' hand.....what big hands he had. Later in 1959 Gil would hit a clutch HR against the Braves and send the Dodgers to the World Series. Then 10 years later he leads the Mets to a World Championship. Quiet leadership....what a rare thing to see anymore. God Bless you Gil Hodges.
I agree wholeheartedly with all of you. It is shameful that Gil Hodges is not in the Hall of Fame. I would like to help out however I can in getting him elected. He sounds like such a lovely guy - a nice guy like Lou Gehrig. His first baseman stats, hitting stats, and managerial record for the Mets should stand as testimony he belongs in the Hall of Fame. Like Miller RL said, they need to leave room for the steroid users or cheaters like Barry Bonds and Pete Rose.
Like I said, Gil was my great uncle (my old acount was MBBulldogs.) My grandma was his sister, and she said that we he was growing up, baseball wasn't his favorite sport. He would walk around Princeton, Indiana dribbling a basketball between his legs. But, he eventually grew stronger and became an amazing baseball player. My grandma has been calling Cooperstown every year asking if there is any chance of Gil finally getting voted in.
@briskin18 I bet you have heard some wonderful stories about Gil from your grandmother. Brooklyn loved him and he loved Brooklyn. How proud you must be to have a great guy like Gil as a relative and a role model. Hopefully all of us Gil Hodges fans can finally get him into the Hall in 2012.
@ShamWasBetter Gil Hodges character and integrity were impeccable. Your comment doesn't even deserve to be responded to except that I am defending Gil's character. I would not want people to think Gil Hodges really would have done something like that because you know darned well he wouldn't.
@GilHodgesFan Gil Hodges was a cross dressing bisexual just like his best friend J Edgar Hoover.In fact Cleon Jones said that in the 1969 World Series in game 5 Hodges brought out some of his dark colored vasoline that Gil Hodges used to stick his huge cock and fist and fuck in his black ball players asses he wiped some of it on the baseball and showed it to Shag Crawford and Cleon Jones was awarded first base in what is now known as "the shoe polish play".
When Gil retired, his 370 home runs were eleventh all-time, and second all-time for right handers behind Jimmie Foxx. Again, 11th all time, 2nd for right-handers. He helped the Dodgers to numerous pennants and a championship in 1955. Why he isnt in the hall is beyond me. I'm only 17 but i've been doing what I can to campaign for his election, even sent an e-mail to the veterans committee pleading his case. Forget Ron Santo and Joe Gordon. Gil DESERVES to be in! HODGES FOR THE HALL!!!!
I am a long time baseball fan and historian and gil hodges was the finest defensive 1st baseman over the past 70 years, and when you add his batting power and rbi's there's no question gil should be in the hall of fame,
My adopted father, Dr. Orville Graves (Jr), played second-string catcher behind Gil in high school. In '63 when I was 13 we went to a Dodgers - Mets game in L.A. While the Mets were warming up, Dad and I walked down to the railing by 1st base and Dad yelled out "Gil!" a couple of times and Gil came over and recognized my Dad and was very friendly and even remembered my Mom's first name. Gil and I shook hands. Great guy. I remember huge hands and blue eyes. How can we help get him into H.O.F??
If he had done nothing else but lead the 1969 Miracle Mets to the World Championship, Hodges would deserve consideration for the Hall of Fame. But we're also talking about the dominant first baseman of the 1950s! He could do it all, and did: hit for power, hit for average (often enough), drive in runs, field, and lead. And he was one of the nicest guys in baseball. What more does the poor guy have to to do prove his Hall of Fame credentials? Hello, veterans' committee! Wake up!!
I'm a die-hard, life-long Giants fan. But I have fought, and will fight, like hell to get him in the Hall of Fame. I really can't believe that he is not there. It really disturbs me because it just isn't right.
@SecretariatOnSteriod oh im so sory for you not beig satisfied with youre life
caballon30 1 month ago
I did a blog as to why he should be inducted, regarding his influnce and why he was so well loved. At the end, I said, he didn't necessarily need the Hall, but it needed him.
BannerBombers 3 months ago
Gil's record as a Dodger and manager of the Mets can speak for itself. There are no Gil Hodges fans who will believe your insane postings nor believe that you know any former Mets players.
GilHodgesFan 10 months ago
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@GilHodgesFan I read Ron Swoboda's book,and he claimed that Gil Hodges loved giving anal sex to all of his African American ballplayers.
cmf43211 10 months ago 3
@cmf43211 You are another person whose slander should be deleted from this YouTube site. Ron Swoboda has never had anything but nice things to say about Gil Hodges and anyone who is a Gil Hodges fan would never believe any of your lies.
GilHodgesFan 10 months ago
@GilHodgesFan If you are Gil Hodges #1 fan than he must have fucked you in the ass a few times?
UsuxMyBallsack 6 months ago
ShamWasBetter's derogatory and false comments about Gil Hodges should be removed from this YouTube site. His comments are pure slander against Gil Hodges good name and trash like Sham's should not be allowed on YouTube.
GilHodgesFan 10 months ago
@GilHodgesFan maybe you are Gil Hodges #1 fan because you know more about old gil Hodges than just as his failures at managing and hitting a baseball?I think that you are Gil Hodges ex Gay lover and you are the one he used to order to fuck Gay ball players in their mouths and asses.I am a friend of Don Hahn and Ronnie Swoboda,who both sware that Hodges was a turd burgler.
ShamWasBetter 10 months ago
im related to him
caballon30 1 year ago
one of the best first baseman to ever play the game and revolutionized defense for the position (which is the norm today).
Served his country in WW2 with distinction (he actually fought and earned the Bronze medal)
Also one of the best managers in my opinion... definite HOF man
we need more people like Gil
RemusRomulas 1 year ago
You know he was a big part of the 55 Dodgers he could hit too. Its a shame a real shame Gil needs to be in the Hall. He was a great Manager too. The Hall has sinned it really has.
Wehategod 1 year ago
Mr. Ronnie G - You are so right about Gil Hodges representing the best in baseball and the best in mankind. Not only the HOF but sports in general needs more upstanding men of integrity like Gil. I don't think you could find anything that could beat Brooklyn Dodger baseball at Ebbets Field. The regulars, the Sym-phony, Hilda and her cowbell, Happy Chandler. It was its own litte community and it is something baseball won't ever see again. We do need Gil in the HOF
GilHodgesFan 1 year ago
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@GilHodgesFan I spoke with Art Shamsky and Rusty Staub who are both Gay ex ballplayers and they both confirmed that Gil Hodges was a cross dresser and a bisexual who would aword playing time to players who would put out for him sexualy as well as swallow his big dick without gagging.This is the only explanation to how George Theodore made the Mets squad all those years he had a 13 inch penis and a .166 batting average!!
ShamWasBetter 10 months ago 5
Gil Hodges, standing at 1st base in a small stadium in Brooklyn, represented the best in baseball and the best in mankind. The HOF needs real baseball heros and Hodges was, indeed, one of those. We are, one and all, SO fortunate to have Gil as our baseball hero. He will ALWAYS be in our hearts and that is more important than any building in Cooperstown, New York.
MrRonnieG 1 year ago
@MrRonnieG Agreed. He should be in the HOF. It's a damned shame he isn't. And Gil died awful young. If memory serves me, he had a massive heart attack while playing golf.
rayjr62 1 year ago
a friend and I talked to a big sportswriter --no help--screw the hall of fame--it is the hall of SHAME, There is a Brooklyn Dodger hall of fame I think--they all belong there--maybe Yogi the only ugh Yankee who could have been a Brooklyn Dodger.
Gil we will always remember you!
vivascargill 1 year ago
Well Gil is in my hall of fame!!
vivascargill 1 year ago
They should have inducted Gil into the Hall when he died so suddenly in 1972. He was the most respected manager in the game at the time and a great beneficial influence on all his players. He was a very good manager for Washington and a great manager for the Mets!...and oh yeah he could hit too...:-0
stephenvincent 2 years ago
Leaving Gil Hodges out of the Hall of Fame shows that the veterans committe has no credibility.
hawkczar 2 years ago
Makes me want to puke to see him with that stupid looking "LA" on his ball cap.
LA are a bunch of frauds.
mrceebees14 2 years ago
@mrceebees14 you said it!! LA Dodgers--what a joke!
vivascargill 1 year ago
My first ever baseball game at age 8 at the L.A. Coliseum with the Dodgers-Cardinals.......a big crowd around Stan Musial to get his autograph and I walked over near the Dodger dugout and got to shake Gil Hodges' hand.....what big hands he had. Later in 1959 Gil would hit a clutch HR against the Braves and send the Dodgers to the World Series. Then 10 years later he leads the Mets to a World Championship. Quiet leadership....what a rare thing to see anymore. God Bless you Gil Hodges.
5dave1 2 years ago 3
I agree wholeheartedly with all of you. It is shameful that Gil Hodges is not in the Hall of Fame. I would like to help out however I can in getting him elected. He sounds like such a lovely guy - a nice guy like Lou Gehrig. His first baseman stats, hitting stats, and managerial record for the Mets should stand as testimony he belongs in the Hall of Fame. Like Miller RL said, they need to leave room for the steroid users or cheaters like Barry Bonds and Pete Rose.
kittiesarebest 2 years ago
Like I said, Gil was my great uncle (my old acount was MBBulldogs.) My grandma was his sister, and she said that we he was growing up, baseball wasn't his favorite sport. He would walk around Princeton, Indiana dribbling a basketball between his legs. But, he eventually grew stronger and became an amazing baseball player. My grandma has been calling Cooperstown every year asking if there is any chance of Gil finally getting voted in.
briskin18 2 years ago
@briskin18 I bet you have heard some wonderful stories about Gil from your grandmother. Brooklyn loved him and he loved Brooklyn. How proud you must be to have a great guy like Gil as a relative and a role model. Hopefully all of us Gil Hodges fans can finally get him into the Hall in 2012.
GilHodgesFan 1 year ago
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@GilHodgesFan The reason that Gil Hodges is not in the baseball hall of fame is that he was a closet bisexual who used to have sex with Sandy Koufax.
ShamWasBetter 11 months ago
@ShamWasBetter Gil Hodges character and integrity were impeccable. Your comment doesn't even deserve to be responded to except that I am defending Gil's character. I would not want people to think Gil Hodges really would have done something like that because you know darned well he wouldn't.
GilHodgesFan 11 months ago
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@GilHodgesFan Gil Hodges was a cross dressing bisexual just like his best friend J Edgar Hoover.In fact Cleon Jones said that in the 1969 World Series in game 5 Hodges brought out some of his dark colored vasoline that Gil Hodges used to stick his huge cock and fist and fuck in his black ball players asses he wiped some of it on the baseball and showed it to Shag Crawford and Cleon Jones was awarded first base in what is now known as "the shoe polish play".
ShamWasBetter 11 months ago 5
@GilHodgesFan Gil Hodges taught Rusty Staub the art of Anal sex as well as how to suck a well hung black ballplayers cock and swallow his semen.
JudyKhan500lbSlut 10 months ago 8
When Gil retired, his 370 home runs were eleventh all-time, and second all-time for right handers behind Jimmie Foxx. Again, 11th all time, 2nd for right-handers. He helped the Dodgers to numerous pennants and a championship in 1955. Why he isnt in the hall is beyond me. I'm only 17 but i've been doing what I can to campaign for his election, even sent an e-mail to the veterans committee pleading his case. Forget Ron Santo and Joe Gordon. Gil DESERVES to be in! HODGES FOR THE HALL!!!!
switchhitter07 2 years ago
I am a long time baseball fan and historian and gil hodges was the finest defensive 1st baseman over the past 70 years, and when you add his batting power and rbi's there's no question gil should be in the hall of fame,
beriflor 2 years ago 2
Why this man is not in Cooperstown is beyond me!
elmaschingondodger 3 years ago 2
My adopted father, Dr. Orville Graves (Jr), played second-string catcher behind Gil in high school. In '63 when I was 13 we went to a Dodgers - Mets game in L.A. While the Mets were warming up, Dad and I walked down to the railing by 1st base and Dad yelled out "Gil!" a couple of times and Gil came over and recognized my Dad and was very friendly and even remembered my Mom's first name. Gil and I shook hands. Great guy. I remember huge hands and blue eyes. How can we help get him into H.O.F??
TommyOMochain 3 years ago 3
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Gi Hodges is my great-uncle, and I really wish I could have met him. My mom says he was the nicest guy ever.
MBBulldogs 3 years ago 6
@MBBulldogs I pushed the down button by mistake--I loved Gil Hodges --he was real class!!
vivascargill 1 year ago
Gil Hodges deserves to be in Cooperstown. I hope he gets there soon!
Charlie265 3 years ago 6
If he had done nothing else but lead the 1969 Miracle Mets to the World Championship, Hodges would deserve consideration for the Hall of Fame. But we're also talking about the dominant first baseman of the 1950s! He could do it all, and did: hit for power, hit for average (often enough), drive in runs, field, and lead. And he was one of the nicest guys in baseball. What more does the poor guy have to to do prove his Hall of Fame credentials? Hello, veterans' committee! Wake up!!
SirCyrano 3 years ago 4
I'm a die-hard, life-long Giants fan. But I have fought, and will fight, like hell to get him in the Hall of Fame. I really can't believe that he is not there. It really disturbs me because it just isn't right.
And he died way too young. Way too young.
grabit1 3 years ago 5
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It's a disgrace to baseball that Hodges is not in the Baseball Hall of Fame. I guess we need to leave room for all the steroid users.
MillerRL 4 years ago 8
@MillerRL He is going in this year.
Congrats Gill!!
mrceebees14 1 year ago
WE BLEED DODGER BLUE !
PETEM4 4 years ago 2