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There should be only one door into Cooperstown

It would be ‘so much awesome’ if baseball writers kept Curt Schilling out of Hall of Fame until he’s deadCurt Schilling is on the Hall of Fame ballot for the ninth time, his next-to-last opportunity to be voted into Cooperstown by the Baseball Writers Association of America. He seems fairly likely to make it, having appeared on 70 percent of ballots a year ago, just 5 percent shy of the threshold for i...

Coronavirus Shutdown Could Derail A Few Cooperstown Bids1941. The world was at war, but in America, Ted Williams hit .406. Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio got a hit in 56 straight games....

What Story Does The Baseball Hall Of Fame Want To Tell?

The National Baseball Hall of Fame is a museum commemorating a particular professional iteration of an old American game; the long room of bronze plaques featuring the ballplayers that various groups of voters have decided over the years have sufficient “fame” is a part of it, but also something ver...

Six days to go until the announcement, but the Baseball Hall Of Fame Ballot Tracker is getting really interesting. Mussina’s a toss-up right now, but the more fascinating projection could be that we’re looking at a 2020 class of Bonds, Clemens, and Schilling. ...

Joe Morgan Doesn't Think Willie Mays Belongs In The Hall Of Fame

Joe Morgan—two-time National League MVP, all-time great, Hall of Famer, and vice-chairman of the Hall’s board of directors—sent an email today from the general Hall of Fame email address to current voters, arguing (among other things) that drug users like Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, and Mickey Mantle s...

Baseball Hall Of Fame Voting Is Fascinating Right Now

Dec. 31 is the deadline for BBWAA members to submit their Hall of Fame ballots, and nearly one third of them have already made their ballots public. And here’s a hell of a thing: Probably not this year, but Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens will make the Hall of Fame within a couple of years....

The Baseball Hall Of Fame Is A Grim, Cruel, Terrible Place

In 1999, I was teaching advanced dialectical history at a small northeastern liberal arts college whose name I will not mention here. The season of that year that stands out the most in my own memory is Autumn. The Autumn of 1999. I remember, that Autumn, getting home from the last class of the day,...