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  • Doug Glanville: Why I'm OK with Barry Bonds not being elected to the Hall of Fame

    01/31/2022 2:11:31 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 56 replies
    ESPN ^ | 1/31
    BACK IN 1997, when I was in my second year with the Cubs, I vividly recall watching batting practice when Mark McGwire stepped in the cage for the Cardinals. It was awesome. I saw how far the ball flew, and, like so many of us, I suspended disbelief. It was like watching a good horror movie, before we knew how wrong things could go. Over time, a cloud of doubt seeped into clubhouses. Suspicion about whether that teammate beating you out is playing fair. Records became mere placeholders. Every home run hit a little too far brought a hitter's integrity...
  • Legendary pitcher Bob Gibson dies at 84

    10/03/2020 8:55:43 AM PDT · by oh8eleven · 26 replies
    CNN ^ | 3 October 2020 | Homero De la Fuente
    Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Gibson, known for his inspiring competitiveness and forceful determination, died Friday at the age of 84, St. Louis Cardinals confirmed to CNN. Gibson announced last year he had pancreatic cancer. The legendary pitcher, who played all 17 seasons of his career with the Cardinals, was a nine-time All-Star, Gold Glove winner and two-time World Series champion. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981, his first year of eligibility. Gibson retired after the 1975 season as the Cardinals all-time leader in wins (251), strikeouts (3,117), shutouts (56), Games started (482) and...
  • Tom Seaver, Hall of Fame pitcher and Mets legend, dies at 75

    09/02/2020 8:14:01 PM PDT · by Beave Meister · 18 replies
    ESPN.com ^ | 9/2/2020
    NEW YORK -- Tom Seaver transformed a franchise and captivated a city, setting enduring standards as he whipped his powerful right arm overhead for the Miracle Mets and dirtied his right knee atop major league mounds for two decades. A consummate pro and pitching icon, he finished fulfilled after a career remembered with awe long after his final strikeout. "It is the last beautiful flower in the perfect bouquet," Seaver said on the afternoon he was inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame. Seaver, the galvanizing force who steered the New York Mets from the National League cellar to a stunning...
  • Hopeful mechanic to Hall of Fame: Mariano Rivera’s perfect underdog story

    07/19/2019 7:22:40 AM PDT · by DFG · 22 replies
    NY Post ^ | 07/19/2019 | Ken Davidoff
    One pitch. One team. A 1.000 WHIP, even. Simplicity propelled Mariano Rivera to greatness. Now, however, as he prepares for his official baseball immortalization, the Yankees legend finds himself juggling about a million thoughts. “It’s too much,” a relaxed-looking Rivera said recently in a conversation with The Post at his Westchester home. “It’s too much to comprehend. It’s too much to try to analyze.” On Jan. 22, Rivera and his family sat in this house and received a phone call from Baseball Writers Association of American secretary-treasurer Jack O’Connell, who delivered life-changing news: Not only did the writers elect Rivera...
  • Mariano Rivera, Mike Mussina, Roy Halladay, Edgar Martinez voted into Baseball Hall of Fame

    01/22/2019 3:37:35 PM PST · by DFG · 96 replies
    Fox News ^ | 1/22/2019 | Gaydos
    Longtime New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera became the first player to ever be voted unanimously into the Baseball Hall of Fame Tuesday, joining former Yankees and Baltimore Orioles ace Mike Mussina, the late Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay and former Seattle Mariners designated hitter Edgar Martinez. Rivera, who holds the record for most saves all-time and won five World Series championships, made it into Cooperstown on his first try as did Halladay, who died in a 2017 plane crash.
  • Red Sox writer refuses to vote Mariano Rivera into Hall of Fame

    12/23/2018 7:55:10 AM PST · by EdnaMode · 27 replies
    NY Daily News ^ | December 23, 2018 | Mark Fischer
    Leave it to a Red Sox scribe to rain on Mariano Rivera’s historic quest. Bill Ballou, of the Worcester, Mass., Telegram, spent about 1,500 words Saturday arguing that the Yankees legend shouldn’t receive a bid into the Hall. We checked the calendar. April Fools’ is months away. “...The Save — the baseball kind — is the lowest-hanging fruit on the game’s statistical tree,” Ballou writes. “Closers are its naked emperors.” Ballou continuously bashes the role of the closer, and even brings up Craig Kimbrel for sake of argument.
  • 2019 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Nominees

    10/09/2018 6:53:34 PM PDT · by CaliforniaCraftBeer · 107 replies
    Rolling Stone ^ | October 9, 2018 | Andy Greene
    The nominations for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2019 are in, and the list includes Radiohead, Def Leppard, Stevie Nicks, Rage Against the Machine, the Cure, Devo, Janet Jackson, Kraftwerk, LL Cool J, Roxy Music, Todd Rundgren, John Prine, MC5, Rufus featuring Chaka Khan and the Zombies. The top vote-getters will be announced in December and inducted March 29th, 2019 at a ceremony at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. HBO will broadcast the event later next year. To be eligible for this year’s ballot, each nominee’s first single or album had to released in 1993 or earlier. Several...
  • Q Anon: 09/09/18 Trust Trump's Plan

    09/09/2018 5:27:46 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 2,341 replies
    qmap.pub ^ | 09/09/18 | FReepers, vanity
    “Trust The Plan” YouTube President Trump This Video Will Get Donald Trump Elected (The Plan) - 6 min YouTube Joe Masepoes Q - The Plan To Save The World - 13 min - popular introduction Threadreader Jason Wright Q Anon Is Real - Oct, Nov 2017 Q drops + commentary Threadreader ImperatorRex A thread on how Team Trump is preparing the normies for what is coming: major Swamp Draining. - overview Twitter Paul Serran What is Q? - 31 point introduction Article Sundance Imagine You are Not a Politician, Yet You are Running For The Presidency - overview Thread...
  • Pete Rose's request for baseball reinstatement denied by MLB commissioner Rob Manfred

    12/14/2015 9:44:08 AM PST · by oh8eleven · 75 replies
    NY Daily News ^ | Christian Red
    Charlie Hustle is still out. Baseball's hit king Pete Rose got an early Christmas present from MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, and it wasn't what Rose had on his wish list.
  • Pedro Martinez, Hall of Fame 2015

    07/26/2015 2:07:55 PM PDT · by big'ol_freeper · 19 replies
    Martinez went 19-7 in 1998 and finished second in the American League Cy Young Award vote, then posted a season for the ages in 1999 – going 23-4 with a league-best 2.07 ERA and 313 strikeouts, winning the pitching Triple Crown. He became just the eighth pitcher to post two 300-strikeout seasons, set a new mark (since broken by Randy Johnson) with 13.2 strikeouts per nine innings and finished second in the AL Most Valuable Player voting. ... (next season) He allowed just 128 hits in 217 innings pitched en route to a WHIP (walks plus hits divided by innings...
  • Cubs Legend Ernie Banks Has Died [HOF SS, at 83 RIP, Pres Obama will probably mention]

    01/23/2015 8:09:42 PM PST · by Steelers6 · 39 replies
    WGN TV ^ | January 23, 2015 | Steelers6
    Cubs legend Ernie Banks has died, according to a Cubs source. This is a developing news story, check back for details.
  • Greg Maddux won’t be a unanimous Hall of Famer for an incredibly stupid reason

    01/07/2014 12:59:17 PM PST · by EveningStar · 65 replies
    Sports Illustrated ^ | January 7, 2014 | Cliff Corcoran
    No player has ever been elected unanimously to the Hall of Fame and four-time Cy Young winner Greg Maddux, the most obvious of the many deserving candidates on this year’s ballot, won’t be the first. We now know that for sure thanks to MLB.com’s commendable tradition of posting its writers’ ballots the day before the results are announced. There are 17 MLB.com writers who have been members of the Baseball Writers Association of America for 10 or more years and thus are eligible to vote for the Hall of Fame. Sixteen of them voted for Maddux. Dodgers beat reporter Ken...
  • Bud Grant Honored By Pro Football HOF At His High School

    05/01/2013 2:11:17 PM PDT · by OneVike · 31 replies
    Vikings.com ^ | 5/1/13 | Mike Wobschall
    The Pro Football Hall of Fame is in the process of honoring each of its members by placing a plaque at each Hall of Famer's high school.The Hall of Fame's project made a stop at Superior (WI) High School on Wednesday to honor legendary Vikings Head Coach Bud Grant as well as fellow Hall of Fame members Alphonse "Tuffy" Leemans and Ernie Nevers.Grant is the most revered figure in Vikings lore. He was head coach of the Vikings for 18 seasons (1967-83, 1985) and in that time compiled a regular season record of 158-96-5 while guiding the Vikings to...
  • Pete Rose erased from baseball cards - Has Topps gone too far?

    02/13/2013 6:42:56 PM PST · by SMGFan · 46 replies
    Baseball card collectors and fans of the game are left scratching their heads after Topps made the decision to scrub mentions of Pete Rose and his Major League Baseball records from their products. ...... Yet, when it comes to players chasing Rose' records, his name is omitted. For example, Chicago White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski's card mentions his standing in regard to the "all-time record of 4,256" hits, but no mention as to who holds that mysterious record.
  • Ex-Viking Chris Doleman leads four linemen into Hall of Fame

    08/04/2012 7:51:31 PM PDT · by TurboZamboni · 1 replies
    PIONEER PRESS ^ | 8-4-12 | joe kay
    CANTON, Ohio -- Chris Doleman knew how to get to the quarterback, no matter where he lined up or which team wanted him. The former Vikings defensive end turned his 150-sack career into a place in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He was the third of six players inducted Saturday night, Aug. 4, joining Dermontti Dawson, Cortez Kennedy, Curtis Martin, Willie Roaf and Jack Butler. Doleman was drafted as a linebacker by the Vikings, but soon was switched to end. He was fourth on the all-time sack list with 150-1/2 when he retired after a 15-year career with the...
  • 'An incredible day for an incredible man' Ron Santo inducted into the National Baseball Hall Of Fame

    07/22/2012 10:01:44 PM PDT · by Beave Meister · 1 replies
    The Chicago Tribune ^ | 7/22/2012 | Phil Rogers
    COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — In one of baseball's sweetest traditions, Stan Musial would play "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" on his harmonica for the so-called seventh-inning stretch of baseball's Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Johnny Bench has stepped in for the 91-year-old Musial, doing a pretty good Harry Caray imitation. On Sunday, in Ron Santo's honor, Bench put on a Cubs jersey before he went to the podium and slipped into character. "Ron would have loved it," Vicki Santo, Ron's widow, said afterward. "He and Johnny were such good friends. He would have thought it was hysterical. He would...
  • Five to be Added to Wisconsin Meat Hall of Fame

    03/03/2011 3:56:36 PM PST · by WOBBLY BOB · 5 replies
    Wisconsin Ag Connection ^ | 2-18-11 | WI AG
    Glorious Malone, Meinhardt Raabe, Gary Underwood, and Roger and Pat Van Hemelryk will be inducted into the Wisconsin Meat Industry Hall of Fame on May 12 at a luncheon in Madison. Malone, who owns Malone's Fine Sausage of Milwaukee, began her pioneering journey in the 1960s by making headcheese in her home kitchen. Unbeknownst to her, the product was being resold and served in stores and taverns as far away as Chicago. Glorious passed away four years ago. She used the popularity of that product to found a successful business that today produces a variety of meat products sold throughout...
  • Finally, Bert Blyleven is headed to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

    01/05/2011 12:36:36 PM PST · by WOBBLY BOB · 14 replies
    1500ESPN.com ^ | 1-5-11 | Tom Pelissero
    Finally, Bert Blyleven is headed to the Baseball Hall of Fame. The longtime Minnesota Twins pitcher received 463 votes (79.7%) from the Baseball Writers Association of America -- surpassing the 75% mark required for induction in his 14th year on the ballot. He'll be inducted along with infielder Roberto Alomar and executive Pat Gillick on July 24 in Cooperstown N.Y. Blyleven, 59, will become the fourth player in Twins history to have a plaque in the Hall, joining Harmon Killebrew (1984), Rod Carew (1991) and Kirby Puckett (2001).
  • Hughes Remembers Santo

    12/05/2010 8:36:59 AM PST · by pinstripes715 · 2 replies
    Chicago Tribune ^ | 12/15/2010 | Pat Hughes
    Broadcast partner recalls unpredictable events, warm greeting when he started in Chicago
  • Vikings guard Steve Hutchinson says John Randle was a hall of fame teacher

    08/07/2010 10:58:04 AM PDT · by WOBBLY BOB · 7 replies
    pioneer press ^ | 8-7-10 | Brian Murphy
    Randle grew up dirt poor on a Texas cotton farm, the youngest of three boys raised by a single mother who struggled to make ends meet while working in the fields and as a maid. Amenities included an outhouse and one bed for the boys to share. There was no running water or furnace. And this was the 1970s. Football, however, was a golden ticket out of poverty, first for Randle's oldest brother, Ervin, who played eight years for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. John Randle played for Division II Texas A&I University (now Texas A&M-Kingsville), but his relatively diminutive stature...