George Steinbrenner spent a lot of money and won a lot of championships. Tony LaRussa is a drunk, probably played a part in the explosion of steroids in baseball, and risked the lives and careers of many players with his beanball wars. I don't see how Steinbrenner getting in the Hall of Fame is such a travesty but LaRussa belongs. Steinbrenner exploited his massive revenue advantage over virtually every other team in the game. More than any one man, he prevented baseball from matching the appeal of the NFL, where market size is merely incidental to team success, by nixing revenue sharing for local tv and radio rights. In doing so, what he really accomplished was to render less meaningful each championship he won compared to had they been won on an equal playing field. What George Halas and Wellington Mara were to the NFL, that is pioneers who forsook short term financial gain for the overall good of the league and its product, Steinbrenner was the polar opposite in baseball. Halas and Mara are rightfully in the NFL Hall of Fame. Steinbrenner doesn't deserve the same fate. I hate how George did things as much as any other Yankee-hater but he deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. He bought a crap franchise and turned it into a dynasty. Preventing MLB from growing as big as the NFL? No. You can blame the ADD, blood thirsty American public for that.