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Our Fictitious Athlete HOF Announces the 2017 Class!

Major update for us! The third full class of the Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame has been announced and the six new entries encompass the sports of baseball, hockey, golf and boxing. Joining previous inductees, The Hanson Brothers, Happy Gilmore, Reggie Dunlop Ricky “Wild Thing” Vaughn, Crash Davis, Roy Hobbs and inaugural inductee, Rocky Balboa are Apollo Creed (Rocky), Charlie Conway (The Mighty Ducks) and Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez (The Sandlot).  The contributor section welcomes Gordon Bombay (The Mighty Ducks) and Chubbs Peterson (Happy Gilmore) and the first veteran’s category inductee chosen this year was Dennis Ryan (Take Me Out to the Ball Game). This year’s leading vote getter was Apollo Creed.  Portrayed by Carl Weathers in four of the Rocky films, Apollo was the former Heavyweight Champion of the World and would become the closest friend of the man who defeated him for the title, Rocky Balboa.  Creed would die tragically in the ring in an exhibition match gone wrong, though his legacy lives on through his son, and Light Heavyweight contender, Adonis Creed.  It should be noted that Apollo finished fourth two years ago. Finishing second in the vote is Charlie Conway, the central character from the Mighty Ducks franchise.  Conway was never presented as the star of the team, but he was their undeniable heart and the favorite of many aspiring hockey players.  Conway finished fourth in the voting last year. The third and final athletic inductee is this year’ lone baseball entry, Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez from The Sandlot.  While it is revealed that Rodriguez would one day become a star player for the Los Angeles Dodgers, we see him as the star of his sandlot team and the one you wished was your best friend when you were a kid. These fictional athletes were elected over the process of a yearlong online vote, which started with over 300 Preliminary Candidates, was reduced to 50 Semi-Finalists, then reduced to an elite 15 in a Final Round, which produced the first Full Class of the Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame. These new inductees beat out the following finalists (in order of their vote totals) in the Final Round: - Tim Riggins (Friday Night Lights) - Willie “Mays” Hayes (Major League) - Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump) - Bobby Boucher (The Waterboy) - Ricky Bobby (Talladega Nights) - Alex Moran (Blue Mountain State) - Dottie Hinson (A League of…


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