Comparing Hodges, Cepeda, and Tony Pérez
Now that Gil Hodges has been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, we compare him to Orlando Cepeda and Tony Perez.
Now that Gil Hodges has been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, we compare him to Orlando Cepeda and Tony Perez.
Todd Helton’s batting accomplishments, in Denver AND away from Colorado, are more than enough to make him a Hall of Famer
Former slugger Fred McGriff, who hit 493 home runs and drove in 1,550 runs in a 19-year career, has been elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame by a special committee.
We pick the best baseball player born every year since 1861.
Why did the Blue Jays try to mess with John Olerud? Robb Scott of the Blue Jays Baseball Podcast tells us how Totonto got it wrong.
Yesterday we got the news that six former players had been elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The new members of the Hall were approved
Gil Hodges and Minnie Miñoso are among the new members of the Baseball Hall of Fame, after results were announced of two elections by two separate committees.
Willie McCovey is best remembered for the hit he did NOT get. But even that was a screaming line drive, and had it fallen in, baseball history would have changed.
No one ever feared Harold Baines the way they feared Jim Rice with a bat in their hands. Not even close. I’m fine with a Hall of
A list of the living members (elected as players) of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
For all his accomplishments in uniform, Gibson’s influence on the culture of baseball is often overlooked.
Harold Baines was on the Hall of Fame ballot for five years, never receiving as many as 50 votes. When he dipped below five percent in 2011,
Today we learned that a trio of former big leaguers will get their plaques in Cooperstown during the last weekend in July. They are Jeff Bagwell, Ivan
Next Tuesday afternoon we’ll learn who will be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the baseball writers. For the third consecutive year I will try
I don’t know nearly enough about the “guts” of WAR to know whether it’s great, good, bad, pitiful, or somewhere in between. This IS NOT an article
Baseball history had many pennant races, until the leagues were split into divisions in the late 1960s.
The 1962 Fall Classic was the first World Series played in Northern California, with the Giants hosting in Candlestick Park. Despite having Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, and
In one of the the worst cases of Hall of Fame voting in the history of that wonderful organization, Ron Santo failed to earn induction despite his obvious qualifications. It was puzzling to many who saw him in his prime. His detractors, whom apparently numbered enough to keep the Baseball Writers and Hall of Fame Veterans Committee from electing him, claimed his career was too short to have reached major statistical milestones, he never played on a winner, or that his career batting average was too unimpressive.
When Juan Marichal stepped on the mound for the first time as a big leaguer, it was the first major league game he had ever seen. Nine innings later, he had made one of the most spectacular debuts in baseball history, and launched a career that would land him in Cooperstown.
Eight pitchers have managed to win 100 games for TWO teams. All but two of them are in the Hall of Fame. All of them were great hurlers.