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Questions about Golden Era Hall of Fame process

Looking for honest answers to why players such as former Phillie Dick Allen didn't gain entrance to Cooperstown.

Dick Allen in March 1964. (AP Photo)
Dick Allen in March 1964. (AP Photo)Read moreASSOCIATED PRESS

JIM BUNNING'S account of the voting on Golden Era candidates for the Hall of Fame raises some serious issues about the process. We've narrowed it down to eight questions and when we get some honest answers we will print them.

* Who chooses the candidates?

* Who chooses the voters and what criteria is used?

* Why include writers on the voting panel when the committee is supposedly designed to judge players the writers rejected for 15 years?

* Why tell the voters they can only vote for as many as four candidates, why not six or eight or 10?

* How much influence did statistical guru Bill James have, someone who wrote that Allen "lost half of his career or more to immaturity and emotional instability?"

* Didn't James name Allen the best player in baseball in 1964 and again in 1972 and isn't Allen the only one named twice in those 8 years not in the Hall of Fame?

* How come Mike Schmidt can find time to support Pete Rose for a spot in the Hall of Fame but was silent when asked about Allen?

* How come Ruly Carpenter endorsed Allen's candidacy while the current Phillies' ownership was silent?