Many of the conceptual arguments around the Baseball Hall of Fame aren’t really about baseball. Debates about…
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It took over 15 years of waiting, but Alan Trammell is finally in the Baseball Hall of Fame. With 13 out of 16…
Joe Morgan—two-time National League MVP, all-time great, Hall of Famer, and vice-chairman of the Hall’s board of…
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It is impossible for me to get enough Baseball Hall of Fame shit. News, analysis, debate—give it all to me. Hook it…
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Curt Schilling, who is not in the Baseball Hall of Fame but would be a first-ballot pick for the Meme Curator Hall…
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Estimable baseball writer Tim Brown has a column up today that’s either about how Bud Selig’s election to the Hall…
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God, it’s “Get worked up about shitty Hall of Fame takes” season again. Every year I go in feeling optimistic—Oh,…
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Former MLB Commissioner Bud Selig and executive John Schuerholz will be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of…