Because I keep a nerdy spreadsheet tracking all the ballots I find, I’m able to look back and be irritated at some of the worst Baseball Hall of Fame ballots instead of forgetting about them. I consider this a positive because it reminds me of whose opinions I should not care about later on in [...]
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2010 Baseball Hall of Fame Results With Ugly Graphs (Updated!)
Update 1/8 Graphs now not ugly. Thank you, Microsoft Excel 2007 you are much better than 2003.
For my own crazy purposes, I keep track of the Hall of Fame ballots that are made public by writers every year. You can see the crazy nerdsheet here.
This year, the shocking thing that happened was the difference between [...]
Swimming In Dangerous Waters: Finding the Worst Hall of Fame Ballots
Most ballots for the Hall of Fame are meh. There are a lot of dumb decisions that are only mildly offensive such as voting for Jack Morris and not Bert Blyleven like Buster Olney, not voting for Bert Blyleven, etc. There are some writers who go with big ballots and vote for people they don’t [...]
ESPN Hall of Fame Ballots
Just got a note that the ESPN writers put their ballots up (thank you ajnrules)! There are 11 of them, so here’s a seperate post. The spreadsheet and megapost will be are updated shortly:
ESPN Writers Ballot
Buster Olney: Rickey Henderson, Jim Rice, Andre Dawson, Jack Morris, Mark McGwire.
Brendan Roberts: Rickey Henderson, Bert Blyleven, Tim Raines, Mark McGwire, [...]
Chicago Tribune Writers 2009 Hall of Fame Ballots
The Chicago Tribune has made the ballots of all their qualified writers public for the 2009 Hall of Fame. I’ve seperated it from the big post of everything because it’s so much.
It includes my absolute favorite “bad” ballot of the year in Dave Van Dyck. Look for him bellow, here’s the listing with links to [...]
The Man Not Voting For Rickey Henderson
While searching around the internet for votes I missed in my big old round-up I came across Mr Corky Simpson.
Here is his ballot:
* Bert Blyleven
* Andre Dawson
* Tommy John
* Don Mattingly
* Tim Raines
* Jim Rice
* Alan Trammell
I don’t mean to be cruel to an old man (he is 88!) but how can you leave Rickey [...]
2009 Baseball Hall of Fame Voting
JANUARY 4th UPDATE: Beyond the votes to everyone’s articles and blog posts (and whatever that is Murray Chass has since it’s not a blog), I have put together a spreadsheet of all this information which you can find here. The Chicago guys are the biggest contingent so far and they all really love Andre Dawson [...]
Hall of Fame Argument Frustration: Chapter 1
Well now that the official ballot is out, people are starting to talk about who they’re voting for and launch the usual pro and con campaigns. Today’s feature is Scott Miller’s pro-Jim Rice argument.
I’ve always voted for Rice because, for me, he passes perhaps the most important criteria for Cooperstown: Did he dominate his era? [...]
2009 Hall of Fame Ballot
Here’s the official ballot (links open up their baseball-reference page):
• Harold Baines
• Jay Bell
• Bert Blyleven
• David Cone
• Andre Dawson
• Ron Gant
• Mark Grace
• Rickey Henderson
• Tommy John
• Don Mattingly
• Mark McGwire
• Jack Morris
• Dale Murphy
• Jesse Orosco
• Dave Parker
• Dan Plesac
• Tim Raines
• Jim Rice
• Lee Smith
• Alan Trammell
• Greg Vaughn
• Mo Vaughn
• Matt [...]
2008 Veterans Committee Ballot
It’s just about a week until the Veterans Committee selections are announced for 2009 induction. Here’s the ballot going in (which was put together back in September or maybe even a little earlier). Bolded are people who should probably have been put in the Hall a long while ago in my extremely humble opinion.
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