From the 1970s 56 players were inducted into the Hall of Fame for baseball but there are hundreds inductees from all sports that came from the 1970s. The 1970s was a great time for many athletes in their playing days. The 1970s, made it hard for athletes to play due to the press, sports have accommodated many great athletes, and many things that influenced the decade like basketball, football and boxing. In the 1970s, it was harder for people of great athletic ability to play sports due to the press questioning their decisions in their personal lives. In the early 1970s, Alcindor converted from Catholicism to Islam, he took the name Kareem Abdul Jabbar, which means “noble, powerful servant” (Kareem Abdul Jabbar NBA). Also in the early 1970s,
