The BBWAA Report Card for the 21st Century: Part 4
July 14, 2011 by Michael Hoban · 4 Comments
In Part 1 of this series, I indicated that the BBWAA (Baseball Writers Association of America) has been quite successful since 2001 in their selection of major league players for induction into the Hall of Fame. Of the eighteen inductees from 2001 through 2011, sixteen do indeed have Hall of Fame numbers according to the […]
Fraudulent History 101
December 9, 2010 by Gabriel Schechter · 8 Comments
So Marvin Miller got screwed again this week in the Hall of Fame balloting. Who didn’t see that coming? Miller certainly saw it coming, undoubtedly the reason why he requested that his name be kept off future Veterans Committee ballots after being snubbed in 2008. That time around, the committee was heavily stacked against him, […]
Washington Is a Baseball Town (Again)
June 8, 2010 by Ted Leavengood · 2 Comments
At the top of the seventh inning the crowd began the chant, “Let’s Go Stras-burg” to the same cadence that fans in DC have grown tired of listening to from Philly, Dodger, Red Sox and just about anywhere fans. Â But this chant was all DC and it grew and built. Â “Let’s Go Stras-burg” the entire […]
The 21st Century Hall of Famers
May 4, 2010 by Michael Hoban · 2 Comments
Here is an interesting question. How many of the “great baseball players†of modern times have fans of the game been able to see during the 21st century (since 2001)? Let’s first take a look at this question for position players and then for pitchers. The Position Players At the end of the 2009 season, […]
