Beyond the obvious broad comedy inherent in the words fuming baseball purists, one of the more amusing aspects of…
The baseball world is very bored right now, and so is in high dudgeon over the election to the Hall of Fame of Lee…
Relief pitcher Lee Smith and right fielder/DH Harold Baines were both elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday…
The way baseball’s Hall of Fame and the veteran sportswriters who vote in its elections have responded to the presence…
The 2019 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot is out, and Mariano Rivera, Roy Halladay, Todd Helton, and Andy Pettitte are new…
Cleveland Indians legend Jim Thome got a well-deserved first-ballot Hall of Fame nod this year, and after some apparent…
There are few—if any?—genres of baseball writing that are more entertaining across the board than the Hall of Fame…
Barring something truly unexpected like a teary confession from Derek Jeter or Mariano Rivera becoming the subject of a…
As worked up as we all were for the results of Baseball Hall of Fame voting, I suppose the players who got in were…
Many of the conceptual arguments around the Baseball Hall of Fame aren’t really about baseball. Debates about players…
For the sixth year in a row, baseball’s home run king and a seven-time Cy Young winner have both been refused entry…
Every Hall of Fame voting season, a few narratives get beaten into the ground. What to do about steroids. What to do…
Dec. 31 was the deadline for BBWAA members to put their Hall of Fame ballots in the mail, which means the 2018…
It’s fair to say that baseball’s Hall of Fame is relatively meaningless and therefore any argument about its membership…
It took over 15 years of waiting, but Alan Trammell is finally in the Baseball Hall of Fame. With 13 out of 16 votes,…
Joe Morgan—two-time National League MVP, all-time great, Hall of Famer, and vice-chairman of the Hall’s board of…
The Baseball Hall of Fame traditionally airs a “highlight reel” of its inductees at the annual ceremony before the…
When discussing Rickey Henderson’s Hall-of-Fame prospects, Bill James once wrote that “if you could split him in two,…
Thanks to Ryan Thibodaux’s diligent ballot tracking, we already knew that Jeff Bagwell and Tim Raines (thank God) were…
Finally, mercifully, the period of speculation about who will be inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame this year will…
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