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For all the (more than 240 now!) Hall of Names teams we've built here at Batter's Box, only upon noticing that the recent All-Born-on-St.-Patrick's-Day squad had an outfielder named Jimmie Hall did it finally occur to me that we might build a team of players named Hall. And as it turns out, if you search the greatness of BaseballReference.com for players named Hall, you find there have been 25 such major leaguers -- and that's a nice roster-friendly number, isn't it?

But actually, we'll have to expand our search just a bit, to include the 13 other players who had last/family names that started with "Hall" -- say, a pretty fair RHSP familiar to Blue Jay fans just became eligible -- as we take time to meet ....


ONE HALL OF A TEAM ...
** indicates Hall of Famer (none)
*indicates All-Star

Player/MGR Bill W. Hallman (13-36, 1897 St. Louis Browns)
Of course -- the skipper of this team is named "Hallman" ... of course!

Lineup
C Tom Haller* (.257, 134 homers in 12 years)
1B Jocko Halligan (.280, 1890-92; mostly OF, C)
2B Bill W. Hallman (.272, 200 SB, 1888-1903)
SS Bill Hall (35 homers, 2006 MIL)
3B Jimmy Hallinan (.287, 1871-78; mostly SS, 1 G at 3B)
LF Jimmie Hall* (.254, 121 homers in 8 years)
CF Albert Hall (.251, 1981-89)
RF George Hall (.322, 1871-77)
DH Mel Hall (.276, 134 homers in 13 years)

Bench
C Toby Hall (.265 through 2006)
IF Jimmy Hallinan (.287, 1871, '75-78)
IF Irv Hall (.261, 1943-46)
OF Charlie "Doc" Hall (1-for-12, 1887 New York)
OF Al Hall (.255, 1879-80)
OF/IF Bob P. Hall (.203, 1904-05)

Rotation
RHSP Roy Halladay* (95-48 through 2006)
LHSP Bill Hallahan* (102-94 in 12 years)
RHSP Marc Hall (15-25, 1910, '13-14)
RHSP Bob L. Hall (9-18, parts of 1949-53)
RHSP Charley Hall (54-47, parts of 1906-18)

Bullpen
CL-RH Dick Hall (93-75, 68 saves, 1955-71)
LH-SET Tom Hall (52-33, 32 saves, 1968-77)
RH-SET Darren Hall (17 saves for '94 TOR)
LHRP Drew Hall (9-12, 5 saves, 1986-90)
RHRP Jack Hallett (12-16, parts of 1940-48)

So, whattaya think, Bauxites ... is this team Hall It Can Be?

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Mike Green - Tuesday, March 20 2007 @ 09:34 AM EDT (#164533) #
Tom Haller was a much better catcher than I appreciated at the time. A career OPS+ of 114  more or less captures it. Darren Daulton is an excellent comp.

Haller is also one of the relatively few successful tall (6'4"+) catchers. Fans of Joe Mauer take heart.

Mick Doherty - Tuesday, March 20 2007 @ 02:43 PM EDT (#164539) #
Just for the record, since we have an All-Hall Hall of Names, there has never been a MLB player named "Name" or whose name started with the character string "Name," so there will be no followup to this with an All-Name Hall of Names team, if that makes any sense!
Mick Doherty - Tuesday, March 20 2007 @ 02:47 PM EDT (#164540) #
Although, upon further review, we could go with a Hall of "Fames" nomination for Fred Ames Hayner (F.Ames Hayner) and his career 24.00 ERA in 4 IP with the 1890 Pittsburgh Alleghenys.
Mick Doherty - Friday, March 23 2007 @ 10:39 AM EDT (#164647) #

Haller is also one of the relatively few successful tall (6'4"+) catchers.

How are you defining "tall"? Bench and Fisk were 6'2" ... Parrish was 6'3".

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