Ron Santo is a former Major League Baseball third baseman for the Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox.

On December 9, 2008, after falling nine votes short for the Baseball Hall of Fame, Santo lashed out at the voting process that determines selection into the Hall of Fame. He stated, "It's a travesty. When I saw nobody got in again, I go, Whoa, this is wrong. They can't keep going the way they're going. They've got to put a (different) committee out there. It'll be eight years now that they've voted and not let anybody in. And personally, I feel like there's a lot of guys that should've been in, not just me."ESPN.com: Santo: Hall veterans' vote needs change (December 9, 2008)

Ron Santo was recognized in his time as one of the best hitting and defensive players in the league. During his career, he recorded a .277 batting average with 342 home runs and 1,331 RBIs. Defensively, Santo was recognized from 1964 to 1968 with five consecutive Gold Glove Awards at third base. Santo was also a nine-time All-Star at his position. An offensive machine with clockwork consistency, Santo had four straight seasons where he hit 30 or more home runs and eleven straight seasons where he hit at least 20. He also had four seasons where he drove in 100 RBIs and eight seasons where he drove in at least 90. Despite these impressive numbers and achievements, as of 2008, Santo had not been elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame.National Baseball Hall of Fame: Hall of fame players ballot of 2009

• "Getting in or not getting in is not going to change my life at all. I'm going to be me, and that's it. But I feel I deserve this. I put up Hall of Fame numbers during the greatest era of baseball for pitchers, and I played with diabetes. Only diabetics can know what I went through. It would have just been satisfying to be elected."—Ron SantoESPN.com: Santo: Hall veterans' vote needs change (December 9, 2008)

"They get the ballot and they only look at the name, they don't look at the numbers. They should have a committee and sit down and talk about the 10 guys eligible. You've got to have people who know what you've done."—Ron SantoMLB.com: Santo denied Hall entry by Veterans (December 8, 2008)

• "There are guys like Ernie Banks and Fergie Jenkins and myself, and we saw him play and saw the type of player he was, and that's how we cast our votes. We thought he was a Hall of Fame player.—Hall of Famer Billy Williams on Ron SantoMLB.com: Santo denied Hall entry by Veterans (December 8, 2008)

• "This is disappointing to me and I know it's disappointing to Ronnie. But I've often said that because we weren't in the postseason and not on national television at the end of the year, it did not help. A lot people didn't know this guy was a great baseball player."—Billy WilliamsChicago Tribune.com: Ron Santo's teammates who are in Hall irked by vote (December 8, 2008)