This year’s J.G. Taylor Spink Award honoree talks about Earl Weaver’s pre-game post-game quotes, how young writers can get his attention, his many clubhouse confrontations and more.
In April, Joe Mauer (and his sunglasses) looked as good as ever. In May, he fell back. Each month promises a very different legacy for the lifelong Twin.
On the persistent and insidious tough luck that Cole Hamels has pitched under.
Start the bandwagon: The next criminally underrated HOF candidate is today’s criminally underrated superstar.
How has the argument changed in the last 15 years? Let’s go back to the time of his retirement and find out.
Today, you will see many a bad ballot go viral. Focus instead on the hundreds of voters who make the HOF what it is.
Ken Griffey Jr. will get inducted. Edgar Martinez will not.
What one small decision might tell us about the people who make it.
David Ortiz announces this will be his final season. His accomplishments are plentiful.
The second in a four-part series honoring this year’s inductees.
The first in a four-part series honoring this year’s inductees.
Saluting the even better players who didn’t make it to next year’s ballot.
Identifying the discrepancies between public and private ballots from yesterday’s vote.
Saluting the players who didn’t make it to next year’s ballot.
Craig Biggio is a well-deserving Hall of Famer and the first Astro to be enshrined, but it’s odd that he may not even be the best player eligible for Cooperstown on his Astros teams.
In what direction are voting totals trending for marginal candidates, and are steroids actually to blame?