This weekend Cooperstown, New York will add six more names to be forever enshrined in the baseball Hall of Fame. Highlighting the six inductees is Gregory Alan Maddux, who had a legitimate chance of being the first unanimous inductee voted in on his first ballot. However, the biggest adverse working against this historic feat was...
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...
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...
The Internet Baseball Writers Association of America (IBWAA) recently sent out their ballot for the IBWAA Baseball Hall of Fame (results to be announced in January). The IBWAA was created by Howard Cole in 2009 as an alternative to the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) and is open to anyone who writes about to baseball to...
Tomorrow, January 9th, the results for the 2013 Baseball Hall of Fame voting will be announced.
This year's ballot is probably the most controversial and toughest ballot ever (and this includes the first couple of years when the Hall of Fame was created). The reason? This is the first "full-fledged" ballot which addresses the...
