Will say, however, the correlation between being a Hall of Famer in MLB and an "All-Time Great" in Strat-o-Matic terms -- or most baseball fans -- is quite imperfect. (The game includes many cheap players, to begin with, right? Necessary and good for platoons, salary caps etc. So the premise behind the name of this game is wrong to begin with.)
Moreover, some guys got elected to the HOF who weren't exactly HOF material. Take Tommy McCarthy, cited above -- a career OPS of 102, relatively average ballplayer. And, during the '70s, Frankie Frisch had a lot of influence on the HOF voting and got a lot of his players and buddies in (Jessie Haines etc. -- see
http://www.espn.com/mlb/hof00/s/worst.htmlNeyer: "Frisch dominated the Veterans Committee, and in addition to arguing for his old Giants teammates, he also lobbied for his old Cardinals teammates, the aforementioned Hafey and Haines. If you want to blame one person for the relatively low standards of the Hall of Fame, then Frankie Frisch is your man."
And in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Committee: "After the committee selected Haines, Frisch commented that Haines was "a worthy, worthy man... a great competitor, a fine fellow off and on the field."[5] Sabermetrician Bill James has listed Haines as one of ten examples of Hall of Fame inductees who do not deserve the honor.[10]"
That said, i voted for more HOF cards, as I'm of course am always in favor of expanding the player pool. But i think we really need a bunch of interesting not-so-great cheaper players, too. Match-ups!