Examining the Credentials of the Current and Future Candidates for the Hall of Fame
Last December, Dick Allen was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum by the Classic Baseball Era Committee. Allen was elected posthumously along with his good friend Dave Parker, who was still alive at the time but passed away from Parkinson’s disease at age 74 last month. The careers of Allen and […]
One of the most colorful and significant players of the second half of the 1970s, Dave Parker passed away last month at a nursing facility in Cincinnati. Parker had been battling Parkinson’s disease since 2012. Parker, known as “Cobra” for his lightning-fast bat, was elected last December to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and […]
Tomorrow at the baseball winter meetings in San Diego, Negro Leagues legend John Donaldson will be on the Classic Baseball Era Committee Hall of Fame ballot. Donaldson, a barnstorming left-handed pitcher who reportedly won 428 games in 33 seasons across the USA and Canada, will be considered for a plaque in Cooperstown, New York, along […]
If you’re a baseball enthusiast contemplating the best managers in the history of the game, the names that pop into your head will likely include John McGraw, Casey Stengel, and Sparky Anderson. Next Sunday, you may hear a lot about a manager named Vic Harris, the player-manager who led the Homestead Grays to a record […]
For the casual baseball fan under the age of 35, Tommy John is the name of a surgical procedure. Older fans remember the pitcher for whom the procedure was named, the left-handed starter whose ulnar collateral ligament in his left elbow was replaced by a new ligament harvested from a tendon in his right wrist. […]
Earlier this month, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum announced the names of eight candidates for a Cooperstown plaque via the Classic Baseball Eras Committee, which is tasked with voting on players previously overlooked in the Hall of Fame vote. One of those candidates is Steve Garvey, the long-time first baseman for the […]
Luis Tiant, the colorful right-handed pitcher best known for his years with the Boston Red Sox, passed away at 83 just five weeks ago. Last week, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum announced that Tiant would be one of the eight candidates for Cooperstown on the “Classic Baseball Era Committee.” The cigar-chomping Cuban-born […]