On December 6th, the first potential inductees to the Hall of Fame Class of 2017 will be announced. The “Today’s Game” ballot features 10 baseball luminaries who are up for consideration for induction into Cooperstown. Unlike the more well known voting for players only (from the baseball writers), this modern version of the “Veteran’s Committee” […]
This weekend in San Francisco, the world’s longest broadcasting career will come to a close. The Giants, in their pursuit of a wild card playoff berth, will host the Los Angeles Dodgers. These will be the final three games of the regular season for the Giants and Dodgers and the final three games for one […]
Congratulations to Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza, who today were elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and will have their plaques revealed during their induction ceremony this summer in Cooperstown, New York. In order to be elected to the Hall, a candidate must supported by at least 75% of the voters from the […]
On Wednesday afternoon, my favorite moment of the baseball off-season will occur: the announcement of the Class of 2016, the new inductees into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. After two terrific classes of Hall of Famers (seven deserving players elected in the past two years), this year’s class will likely be smaller, […]
Should the BBWAA vote for Bonds and Clemens for the Hall of Fame? I wrote about this a year ago: this is an updated version of the same post, call it a 2nd Edition. I’ll answer the question here up front: NO. If I were a member of the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA), I […]
It’s less than four weeks until the results are announced for the class of 2016 for the Baseball Hall of Fame. Two new center fielders are on ballot for the first time, Ken Griffey Jr. and Jim Edmonds. This article will not be about Junior Griffey. He will be a 95% or better vote-getter in his debut on […]
(updated December 12, 2016) On October 1, 2007, I was sitting in the sports book at the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas with a great friend of mine, John Zentner. We were watching two games: Monday Night Football (in which the Patriots beat the Bengals en route to their perfect 16-0 regular season) and the […]
Yesterday, on his 40th birthday, Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz announced that he will retire at the end of the 2016 season, bringing to a close the most consequential career in the history of the team since Babe Ruth. Although Hall of Famers like Carl Yastrzemski, Ted Williams, Wade Boggs, and Pedro Martinez had greater overall […]
Every year, in a small upstate New York town named Cooperstown, there is a magical day, usually in the glowing sunshine, in which legends of the sport of baseball are bestowed with the game’s greatest honor, induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Well, not every year. Two years ago, despite the […]
This weekend, within a span of about 17 hours, Major League Baseball’s 400 home run club welcomed two new members. On Friday night, Texas Rangers 3rd baseman Adrian Beltre belted his 400th career long ball. Then on Saturday afternoon, in a fairly hefty drizzling rain, Detroit Tigers 1st baseman Miguel Cabrera slugged #400 of his brilliant career. Both blasts […]