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Hall Of Fame Expert Predicts Only One Player Will Make It This Year
Bill Deane is a former senior research associate at the Baseball Hall of Fame. For more than three decades, he's been predicting who'll make it into the HOF, who won't, and what their vote percentages will be. On borderline cases—those within 10 percent of the 75-percent cutoff—he's batting .806. So...
No One Anywhere Is Haunted By Richie Sexson
Having purchased a Hall of Fame ballot, which we'll be filling out in accordance with the wishes of our readers, we're examining the merits—and relative lack of merits—of all 36 players on this year's ballot for the purposes of better informing the electorate, i.e., you. All entries in the series ca...
Hideo Nomo Changed Baseball Forever, And Then He Disappeared
Having purchased a Hall of Fame ballot, which we'll be filling out in accordance with the wishes of our readers, we're examining the merits—and relative lack of merits—of all 36 players on this year's ballot for the purposes of better informing the electorate, i.e., you. All entries in the series ca...
Vote For Mike Timlin, World Champion Of Baseball
Over the next few weeks, we'll be examining the merits—and relative lack of merits—of all 36 players on this year's Hall of Fame ballot for the purposes of better informing the electorate, i.e., you. All entries in the series can be found here....
Chart: The Voting Trajectory Of Every Hall Of Fame Candidate Ever
To aid in your Deadspin HOF ballot decisions, Kenny Shirley and Carlos Scheidegger of AT&T Labs have created a great interactive graph for exploring the voting trajectories of all 1,000-plus players/managers ever to be candidates for the Hall. The screencap above might make it look a little dense, b...
Vote For Jack Morris (And Shut Up About Game 7 Already)
Over the next few weeks, we'll be examining the merits—and relative lack of merits—of all 36 players on this year's Hall of Fame ballot for the purposes of better informing the electorate, i.e., you. All entries in the series can be found here....
Marvin Miller Is The Hall Of Fame's Biggest Snub
After it was announced that Marvin Miller will once again miss out on the Hall of Fame, Donald Fehr, his successor as head of the MLBPA—and current executive director of the NHLPA—released this statement:...
Heisman Voter Already Made Up His Mind On Jameis Winston's "Integrity"
Meet Chris Elsberry, longtime columnist for the Connecticut Post. Elsberry wants to explain to you why he listed Jameis Winston second on his Heisman ballot, behind BC's Andre Williams. You guessed it: the "integrity" clause....
Tony La Russa, Bobby Cox, Joe Torre Elected To Hall Of Fame
La Russa, Cox, and Torre were all unanimously elected to Cooperstown by the 16-man Expansion Era committee. No one else on the ballot—not even Marvin Miller, who did more than any other person to make baseball what it is, received even six votes....
Evan Turner Is Ready For The Big Ten Championship
Former Buckeye and current 76er Evan Turner is sporting a Marcus Hall-inspired shirt in anticipation of Ohio State's game against Michigan State later tonight. ...
Having A Hall Of Fame Vote Turned Me Into A Monster
I clicked open the post and prepared to cast my vote for who makes it onto our Hall of Fame ballot. I figured, there are about 10 no-doubters, 20 no-chance-in-hellers, and a handful of tough calls. I could knock this out in a minute. I scrolled down to see who I'd be voting on, and I halted at the p...
Price Of Fame: Frank Thomas, Who Saved My Life
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be examining the merits—and relative lack of merits—of all 36 players on this year’s Hall of Fame ballot for the purposes of better informing the electorate, i.e., you. All entries in the series can be found here....
Price Of Fame: Ray Durham, Who Made Ballgames Worth Enduring
Over the next few weeks, we'll be examining the merits—and relative lack of merits—of all 36 players on this year's Hall of Fame ballot for the purposes of better informing the electorate, i.e., you. All entries in the series can be found here....
Who Should Be In The Baseball Hall Of Fame? Vote Now!
Here it is—your chance to vote in the 2013 Baseball Hall of Fame elections!...
Deadspin Announces Process By Which Readers Will Vote For Hall Of Fame
When we announced that we had illicitly purchased a Hall of Fame vote from a veteran member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America, we made clear that our intention was to turn the ballot over to the public. Starting tomorrow, we'll make good on that promise, but we wanted first to lay out ...
Cut Off From The Herd
Dig S.L. Price's 1997 SI feature on Randy Moss:...
The Pundits Weigh In On Our Purchase Of A Hall Of Fame Vote
When we announced last week that we had purchased a Hall of Fame vote, making a mockery and farce of the process by which veteran baseball writers anoint the elect among retired ballplayers and usher them into the sacred temple at Cooperstown, we had one question: Will the takes be strong? Happily, ...