Former NBA star Tracy McGrady has been working out preparing for baseball season since the winter. He started training with former MLB pitcher Roger Clemens, who pitched for the Sugarland Skeeters of the Atlantic Independent League in 2013. McGrady, whose fastball is rumored to be as fast as 90 mph, decided to try out for the team...
Derek Jeter was honored for the first time on his tour around Major League Baseball. Now this usually, usually meaning in the case of Jeter's former teammate Mariano Rivera who was honored at twenty of the thirty Major League Ballparks during his "Farwell Tour" as this is a relatively new idea, takes place prior to the...
Yes, the rumors are true. Retired National Basketball Association star Tracy McGrady is hoping to become a big league pitcher one day.
ESPN commentator Jeff Van Gundy let it slip Friday during a telecast of the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Brooklyn Nets game, that the former Orlando Magic and Houston Rockets star has plans for a...
When Major League Baseball Commisioner Bud Selig announced his retirement in October 2013, many were skeptical that he really meant it. After all, Selig has announced his retirement on more than one occasion (remember 2009 and 2012?). But, the Commissioner, who will turn 80 in July, was adamant that he really means it this time...
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...
As we all just found out, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mark McGwire, and Sammy Sosa were all misses for the Hall of Fame this time around. It is a big dispute about whether or not someone who is known to have used steroids should be voted into the Hall of Fame, and as of right now it looks like a no. The Hall of Fame voters have...
I don't need to wait til January 8 to know that both Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens won't make the 2014 Hall of Fame class. I am almsot certain that they won't make the 2015 class either. In fact, there is a chance that the greatest pitcher and the greatest hitter of their generation may never get elected to the Hall of Fame at...
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...
The MLB Hall of Fame voting was announced at 2pm Eastern this afternoon and not a single person was elected. The highest percentage of the vote went to Craig Biggio with 68.2 percent of the vote. The second highest was Jack Morris with 67.7 percent. Barry Bonds received 36.2 percent and Roger Clemens received 37.6 percent.
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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...
