I was going to write about what I call The Wait this week on Life as a Major League Baseball Season Ticket Holder and I did actually. I had an entire column prepared. While I was waiting on the internet connection to stop going in and out up here in the beautiful mountains of Pioneer, CA (they aren't so beautiful when you can't connect...
The Baseball Hall of Fame announced the cap selections for the 2014 inductees, Joe Torre, Tony La Russa, Bobby Cox, Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, and Frank Thomas on Thursday. The big surprises came from La Russa and even more so from Maddux, both of whom will enter the HOF with blank caps.
For La Russa this makes sense. I know a lot of...
With the results of the 2014 Hall of Fame Induction Class recently announced, we can begin to seriously look towards 2015 and which players will be inducted in July 2015, which players will just miss, and which players will simply drop off the ballot.
Update (January 2nd 2015): Rich Stowe and Adam Solowiei have released their official...
Last year not a single living player got into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. Most attribute this to the extreme use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) during the 1990s. A player even having his name mentioned in a sentence with a known PED user cost players, like Craig Biggio, to not receive the required 75 percent of the...
Congratulations to Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, and Frank Thomas on gaining induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame yesterday. All three received more than the 75 percent of the BBWAA votes. Craig Biggio fell just short (two votes) of gaining induction. Many players "lost" votes compared to last year and Rafael Palmeiro fell...
Over the last year, the writers of Sports Unbiased (and several invited guests) have created the Sports Unbiased MLB Hall of Fame. In this Hall of Fame, the ballot a player is inducted on matters – so there is a difference between first-ballot and second-ballot Hall of Famer and there is a difference between fifth-ballot and tenth....
Over the last year, the writers of Sports Unbiased (and several invited guests) have created the Sports Unbiased MLB Hall of Fame. In this Hall of Fame, the ballot a player is inducted on matters – so there is a difference between first-ballot and second-ballot Hall of Famer and there is a difference between...
Over the last year, the writers of Sports Unbiased (and several invited guests) have created the Sports Unbiased MLB Hall of Fame. In this Hall of Fame, the ballot a player is inducted on matters – so there is a difference between first-ballot and second-ballot Hall of Famer and there is a difference between...
Over the last year, the writers of Sports Unbiased (and several invited guests) have created the Sports Unbiased MLB Hall of Fame. In this Hall of Fame, the ballot a player is inducted on matters – so there is a difference between first-ballot and second-ballot Hall of Famer and there is a difference between...
Over the last year, the writers of Sports Unbiased (and several invited guests) have created the Sports Unbiased MLB Hall of Fame. In this Hall of Fame, the ballot a player is inducted on matters – so there is a difference between first-ballot and second-ballot Hall of Famer and there is a difference between...
