Midnight Musings

I was watching something when Ty Cobb was profiled and along with the whole mess of the Mitchell Report I got to thinking; a lot of hall of fame voters are saying that they won't vote in anyone who's been accused of steroids and then there are others who say that since the whole era is tainted and they don't know who used what they're going to vote in whoever deserves it because of stats. And plus there are other cheaters and bad people in the Hall and thus they shouldn't judge because of personality or off field character, so there argument goes.
But then I thought, perhaps because it seems unfair for certain people to be grouped together and housed with the same distinctions as cheaters that the players should be voted in based on states or whatever, regardless of their character or their suspicion of steroid use. BUT there should also be a related but separate Hall, a Hall of Honor for those players who were great ball players but also exemplary citizens, who were role models, played the game the right way and served as shining examples and representations of what you would want a Hall of Fame person to be.
And this Hall of Honor would be reserved for those who are beyond suspicion of cheating of any kind, who never get caught in off the field problems, who deserve place in Honor. These players would still be duly elected to the Hall of Fame but they would also have a second election to be elevated.
The cheaters and wretched could go no further than the Hall of Fame (because after all they are famous.) But
Let the Hall of Fame be for all the rogues, and mention on their plaques the allegations of wrongdoing and their tainted artifacts but let there be a higher place of glory for those who deserve it.
or something like that

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