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Sports Central May 22, 2007 Paul Tenorio |
Should Barry Bonds Be a Hall of Famer? Barry Bonds surely had Hall of Fame numbers before the steroid controversy erupted. So does his alleged steroid use change the picture -- and should it? |
Sports Central April 10, 2006 Adam Russell |
Bonds, Rose Deserve Similar Punishment A number of comparisons can be drawn between the current Bonds situation and Pete Rose's of the late 1980s. One of them is the argument regarding the game's "integrity." |
Sports Central January 10, 2008 Sean Crowe |
The Obligatory "Jim Rice HOF Snub" Column Another year goes by and once again, the Baseball Writers' Association of America proves they lack the metal prowess required to elect baseball players to the Hall of Fame. |
Sports Central December 3, 2006 Greg Wyshynski |
Why McGwire Belongs in Cooperstown There's not a single reason to keep Mark McGwire out of the Baseball Hall of Fame. |
Sports Central June 1, 2009 Brad Oremland |
No, ESPN, Steroids Still Aren't Okay ESPN The Magazine has published a piece that goes further. Zev Chafets argues that steroids are as wholesome as apple pie. |
Sports Central January 13, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
A Hall Election and Nobody's Coming The Baseball Writers Association of America ended up electing nobody to the Hall of Fame. And I'm not sure which, among factors gaining serious discussion as the voting commenced and, at last, the results came in, may prove the most controversial of them all. |
Sports Central January 17, 2014 Brad Oremland |
The Hall of Fame, the BBWAA, and the Steroid Era If you care at all about the Baseball Hall of Fame, the election results released last week made you somewhat happy. |
Sports Central July 9, 2009 Jonathan Lowe |
Shame in Their Fame? Next Tuesday will be a night when older baseball stars show off for the masses, and rising performers will stake their claim to future success. |
Sports Central April 16, 2005 Greg Wyshynski |
Survey Says: Steroids Don't Matter The Associated Press and AOL Sports polled 1,001 adults about their thoughts on professional baseball today. The results are interesting, if not startling. |
Science News July 30, 2005 Ivars Peterson |
Ticket to Cooperstown Is it really getting harder to get into baseball's Hall of Fame? That's the question that an economist and two of his students set out to answer with mathematics. |
Sports Central May 14, 2009 Bijan C. Bayne |
Time For MLB to Man Up on Records Which sluggers from this period merit election to Cooperstown? The Manny Ramirez mess only serves to further muddy these waters. |
Sports Central December 11, 2011 Louie Centanni |
Veterans Committee Should Be Ashamed Ron Santo was officially inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on December 5, 2011. A man of the absolute highest morality and class, his HOF merits had been debated for the past three decades by fans inside and out of Chicago. |
Sports Central January 20, 2010 Ross Lancaster |
The Hall of Why As you probably already know, a couple of weeks ago, Andre Dawson was announced as the only player to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame this year. |
Sports Central May 24, 2011 Brad Oremland |
Re-Thinking Zero Tolerance For Steroids We don't have to accept steroid use in baseball, and we probably shouldn't accept it. But there has to be a line. And I think zero tolerance is too strict a standard. |
Sports Central November 16, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
HOF Ballot: The Holdovers The holdover Hall of Fame ballot entrants are both an interesting and a troublesome group, largely because the recent rule changes limiting a Baseball Writers Association of America candidate to ten years on the ballot. |
Sports Central July 24, 2004 Greg Wyshynski |
The Special People Club When it comes to the Baseball Hall of Fame, how do you compare position players and career starting pitchers, with glamorous stats, against players that excelled in more specialized roles? |
Sports Central January 9, 2014 Kevin Beane |
Baseball HOF Writer Makes it About Himself I haven't written about any HOF issues because they are way down my list of interesting sports matters at any given time, except for Pete Rose. |
Sports Central December 9, 2003 Jeff Kallman |
And Now, the End is Near? Will Pete Rose eventually be enshrined in the Hall of Fame? |
Sports Central January 27, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
Cooperstown Calling Commentary about recent Hall of Fame selections. |
Sports Central May 10, 2005 Matt Thomas |
Barry Bonds, a Legacy in Transition Barry Lamar Bonds holds his own when viewed in light of standards set by the game's all-time greats. But his problems start and finish with his attitude. |
Sports Central January 10, 2007 Jeff Kallman |
There is But One Word... Some thoughts on baseball's recent Hall of Fame voting -- especially regarding Mark McGwire. |
Sports Illustrated July 30, 2002 Frank Deford |
Smelling like a Rose Each year Pete Rose gets more sympathy and more visibility than the last. Frank Deford explains why baseball has only its nonsensical Hall of Fame ban to blame |
Sports Central January 10, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
It's Past Time to Fix the Hall of Fame Voting The good news on the Hall of Fame front: Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine are the first teammates to go into the Hall of Fame together on their first try. |
Sports Central January 8, 2005 Greg Wyshynski |
Sandbaging Sandbergs The author says he is also consistent when it comes to the Baseball Hall of Fame. He remains, as always, the Cooperstown Nazi. his Hall of Fame would have about 25% of the players currently enshrined. |
Sports Central August 15, 2005 Vince Grzegorek |
Rafael Palmeiro: Hall of Famer? The numbers may say one thing, but the chemicals say another. There is little to no chance that he will ever garner enough votes to enter the Hall of Fame. |
Sports Central December 21, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
Swinging Strike Three For Charlie Hustler Does a man like Pete Rose, whose comprehension of the baseball rules depends on what your definition of the rules is, understand what happens when you swing with two strikes and miss? |
Salon.com August 9, 2001 Allen Barra |
Shoeless Joe Jackson revisited Does the banished ballplayer belong in the Hall of Fame? Depends whether you're talking about the player or the man... |
Sports Illustrated January 10, 2002 Frank Deford |
Real vs. Reel Today's stars compete with mystique of past greats... |
Sports Central May 13, 2014 Andrew Jones |
Active MLB Players' HOF Chances Major League Baseball's active list of potential Hall of Fame careers appears relatively clean. Let's turn over a new leaf and look at some worthy active candidates. |
Sports Central December 29, 2010 Corrie Trouw |
The Blyleven HOF Case: Bert So Good While Bert Blyleven does not merit inclusion in a museum that honors the top one percent of players all-time, I think he is at worst in the top two percent, one of many borderline cases who just happens to fall on the wrong side of the border. |
Salon.com January 3, 2001 Allen Barra |
Marvin Miller, Hall of Famer The union founder made ballplayers unimaginably rich. Will they ever have the guts to demand that he be enshrined in Cooperstown?... Also, why do people complain that there are too many college bowl games? |
Salon.com July 26, 2000 Gary Kaufman |
Last call for the Hall Readers have their say about which players should make it to Cooperstown. Last of three parts. |
Sports Illustrated December 18, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Time to Fess Up If Pete Rose hopes to be reinstated, he must admit he bet on his sport. |
Sports Illustrated October 8, 2001 Phil Taylor |
Not so fast Baseball overlooks one thing when saluting past stars: the pre-1947 exclusion of black players from the major leagues... |
Sports Illustrated October 25, 2000 Frank Deford |
National Passed Time Baseball is still our game -- if we can stay awake. The bizarre thing about baseball is nobody disputes that the games are too long, and because of this the game is being terribly harmed... |
Salon.com October 25, 2002 Allen Barra |
Barry and the Babe Forget the nostalgia freaks droning on and on about the Mythical White Ballplayer era. Barry Bonds is the greatest player in baseball history. |
Sports Central January 17, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
The Dutchman and Other HOF Thoughts Well, now. I no longer have to apologize for championing Bert Blyleven as a Hall of Famer, which I've done for about the previous decade. He finally made it in his final try with the Baseball Writers Association of America. |
Salon.com July 25, 2001 Allen Barra |
Throw the bums out! It's time to eject baseball's owners for arguing balls and strikes... |
Sports Central March 26, 2005 Greg Wyshynski |
Sports Media's Steroid Hypocrisy Today's sports pundits have more in common with Major League Baseball's braintrust than they'd like to admit -- they all placed their heads in the sand just deep enough to play blind to the sport's steroid subculture while still being able to hear the cash register ring. |
Outside October 2004 |
Halls of Fame: A List of the World's Best Our favorite shrines to greatness: International Swimming Hall of Fame... U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame... International Surfing Hall of Fame... U.S. Ski Hall of Fame... etc. |
Salon.com July 24, 2000 Gary Kaufman |
Who's going to Cooperstown? Considering the definitelys, the probables and those intriguing maybes. |
Sports Central June 1, 2005 Chris Lindshield |
Closers Drawing Closer to the Hall? To date, only two pure closers and one closer convert have been elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame. That's a good indication that perhaps the best closer in baseball today isn't guaranteed a spot in the Hall. |
Sports Central October 23, 2011 David Exum |
Ken Stabler Belongs in Hall of Fame One of the main reasons I truly believe that Stabler belongs in the Hall of Fame is because he guided his team to a Super Bowl victory. |
Sports Central April 7, 2005 Vincent Musco |
Bonds Leaves Us Feeling Confused Barry Bonds is positioned to break Babe Ruth's home run record but other issues such as steroid use cloud his image. |
AskMen.com Phil Helm |
Top 10: Outrageous Hall Of Fame Exclusions The following is a list of 10 athletes who were outrageously exluded from their respective sports hall of fames. |
Sports Illustrated October 4, 2001 Frank Deford |
Around the horn A look at noteworthy items from the sports world... |
Sports Central February 27, 2009 Jeffrey Boswell |
Sports Q&A: A-Rod: HG "H" For "Honesty" Coming "clean" has never been so dirty. |
Sports Central August 11, 2009 Diane M. Grassi |
MLB Sportswriter Scoops Self to Remain Relevant When a journalist perhaps sees the writing on the proverbial wall, does he or she then deliberately bend the rules to remain relevant? Such apparently appears to be the case as evidenced in a July 27, 2009 NY Daily News column written by highly regarded sportswriter Bill Madden. |
Sports Central January 22, 2010 Jeffrey Boswell |
Sports Q&A: Cardinal Sins and Sexual Healing Mark McGwire admitted to using steroids after years of refusing to discuss the matter. it was reported that Tiger Woods has entered a sex addiction clinic. Are these forgivable offenses? |
Salon.com June 15, 2000 Gary Kaufman |
Shoeless Joe, Hall of Famer A pair of South Carolina lawmakers say the "Black Sox" star's lifetime ban from baseball should be lifted. They're right. |