Besides becoming the 297th member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, Larkin is also the 48th ball player to enter the Hall of Fame after playing his entire career with one ball club.
Currently, Gil Hodges and Jack Morris are both inextricably tied to the fact that only two ball players have ever eclipsed 60% in the Hall of Fame voting and were never elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Of theball players who have already appeared on a Hall of Fame ballot or were never considered for the honor, only Kaat (283), Tommy John (288), and 19th century pitchers Tony Mullane (284) and Bobby Mathews (297) have at least 280 career victories, and none have made the cut.
Therefore, it is the responsibility of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum to chronicle and educate its visitors on a generation that included ball players that had succumbed to the temptations of performance enhancing substances.