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In case you’ve forgotten, Ken Griffey Jr.’s preference for wearing his cap backward infuriated old white columnists—a…
Jack O’Connell might have the coolest job in the world. As secretary/treasurer of the Baseball Writers’ Association…
The greatest hitter and pitcher of their generation were once again shut out of Cooperstown, thanks to the petty,…
MLB.com baseball writer Marty Noble has turned in his Baseball Hall of Fame ballot, and from the deep pool of…
The official Baseball Hall of Fame announcement is Wednesday, but nearly one-third of ballots have been publicly released. Griffey and Piazza appear to be shoo-ins; Bagwell and Raines should be close.
The 2016 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot is out. Newcomers include: Ken Griffey Jr., Trevor Hoffman, Billy Wagner, Jim Edmonds, Mike Lowell, Brad Ausmus, Luis Castillo, and David Eckstein. This is the final year on the ballot for Mark McGwire and Alan Trammell.
In 1999, I was teaching advanced dialectical history at a small northeastern liberal arts college whose name I will…
Pedro Martínez played up his heritage and spoke directly to his fellow Dominicans today at his Hall of Fame…
A largely pointless digression I will never tire of debating: which caps should baseball hall-of-famers wear on their plaques? Read more
Randy Johnson will wear a Diamondbacks cap on his Hall of Fame plaque. That means Ken Griffey Jr. will be the first player to go in as a Mariner when he's inducted next year. Read more
This year, I decided to make my life a little happier by giving up on my usual winter pastime of hate-reading…
We wanted a Baseball Hall of Fame vote both to make a farce of the increasingly absurd electoral process and to give…
If there is one thing you can count on, it is Curt Schilling being wrong about absolutely everything.
The 2015 class of the Baseball Hall of Fame has been announced. It is: Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, John Smoltz, an…
The Hall of Fame voting will be revealed at 2 p.m. EST today. From their showings on the ballots that have been…
As in past years, the excellent folks behind the Baseball Hall of Fame Vote Tracker are taking note of every…
The Baseball Writers' Association of America voted today to recommend to increase the number of players they can…
The Veterans Committee did not elect anyone to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Dick Allen and Tony Oliva each received 11 of 16 votes, one shy of induction. Jim Kaat fell two votes short.