Grabbed from my Hall of Fame voting archives:
I voted for Tim Raines his first year of eligibility. But when he failed to get 25 percent of the vote, he was moved to the back burner. Sorry, that’s just the way it has to be. Maybe more eligible ballwriters should have measured the Rock’s career numbers [...]
Archive of posts filed under the off the field category.
Reminder: Bill Conlin is a Known Chass Clone
This Year’s Ticket Whines
It’s that time of year, when the Yankees are finishing up their season ticket upgrades and additions a mere two months or so after just about every other MLB team. So with my tickets finalized a few days ago I sat down to figure out what days I needed to take off work.
Looking at the [...]
But What About My Attendance?
I am currently reading a Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball. The title pretty clearly explains what it’s about. In one of the early chapters I came across a little tidbit of information that I found to be rather amusing:
When a Western Union operator tried to enter the grounds, [Charles] Comiskey refused to [...]
Maybe Curtis Granderson Traded For Actual Curtis Granderson
I had a dream where the Yankees traded their potential sort-of Curtis Granderson for the real thing, except that it really happened.
There’s a whole lot of analysis better than anything I could provide you with about this trade (click on those Yankees links on the side for some of them), but I like talking so [...]
In Rememberance of Tommy Henrich
Tommy Henrich played on four Yankees Championship teams and was known for being a clutch hitter. Whether that’s true or not (it’s probably not, that title is just the kind of thing that winds up sticking around forever once you do it a few times) there are other, more important and frankly more interesting things [...]
