Walker has numbers that rank him among elite in Hall of Fame

By Tracy Ringolsby

Inside the Seams

Larry Walker (Maple Ridge, B.C.) put together a career that has him among the elite in the history of the game. He ranks well above average among current Hall of Famers in virtually every statistic.

Walker, however, is on the HOF ballot for the ninth time and has yet to receive support from even 35 percent of the veteran members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, who vote on the Hall of Fame membership.

How Walker Compares

Category	Stat	Rank	HOF Leader
Avg.	.313	57th	Ty Cobb .367
OBP	.400	31st	Ted Williams .482
Slugging	.565	8th	Babe Ruth .690
H	2160	107th	Ty Cobb 4191
2B	471	51st	Tris Speaker 793
3B	62	121st	Sam Crawford 309
HR	383	34th	Hank Aaron 755
RBI	1311	64th	Hank Aaron 2297
BB	913	66th	Rickey Henderson 2190
SO	1231	37th	Reggie Jackson 2597
SB	230	34th	Rickey Henderson 1406
SB%	75.2	17th	Tim Raines 84.7
HBP	138	8th	Hughie Jennings 287
ExBH	916	42nd	Hank Aaron 1477
AB/HR	18.03	25th	Babe Ruth 11.76
AB/RBI	5.27	28th	Babe Ruth 379
PA/BB	8.8	48th	Ted Williams 4.84
%PIT TAKEN	51.9	21st	Babe Ruth 67.1
%SWING IN PLAY	42.5	23rd	Tony Gwynn 60.8
SWING MISS	22.5	24th	Wade Boggs 5.5