Robin Roberts and the living members of the Baseball Hall of Fame

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Robin Roberts, the tireless right-handed pitcher from the 1950 Philadelphia Phillies ‘Whiz Kids’ team who died Thursday at 83, had been No. 10 on David Carson’s list of oldest living members of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Lee MacPhail, a longtime baseball executive who was elected by the Hall of Fame’s veterans committee, is No. 1 on the list, at age 92. Bobby Doerr, a second baseman for the Boston Red Sox who was also elected by the veterans committee, is a few months younger than MacPhail.

Can you guess who is the oldest living member of the Hall of Fame, as selected by the Baseball Writers’ Assn. of America?

Find out who that player is and see the whole list after the jump.

-- Claire Noland

Living Members of the Baseball Hall of Fame

http://www.whosaliveandwhosdead.com/l_bbhof.asp This list has been updated to reflect the death of Robin Roberts, formerly
at position #10, and the addition of Andre Dawson.

There are currently 67 living members of the Hall of Fame. This includes
60 players, five managers, one umpire, and one executive. (Most managers
were former players and many players later become managers, but they are
usually voted into the Hall as one or the other, as their career merits).
Of the 67, 54 were voted in by the baseball writers association and 12
were voted in by the veterans committee. (The veterans committee is
viewed by many as a ‘back door’ into the Hall and, therefore, it is
considered more prestigious to be inducted by the baseball writers.)
There is also one living member of the Hall who was inducted by the Negro
Leagues committee, a temporary organization formed to bestow Hall of Fame
honors on players from the days before baseball became racially
integrated.

The list below gives each living Hall member, in order of date of birth.
It also indicates how each member was inducted. The absence of a
designation means ‘player inducted by the baseball writers.’

David Carson

Living members of the Baseball Hall of Fame