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I. A short history First, just a little bit of history. The Baseball Hall of Fame, more or less, was the brainchild of two people. The first knew nothing whatsoever about baseball. The second romanticized the game beyond all reason. You can think about...

Before we get to this year’s Hall of Fame ballot, let’s consider Joe DiMaggio for a moment. The Yankee Clipper retired after the 1951 season, and at the time was widely (and rightly) viewed as one of the game’s all-time greats, there with Ruth and Gehrig...

What follows here is only an exercise. With the announcement Wednesday that Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines and Ivan Rodriguez will be inducted to the Baseball Hall of Fame this summer, I got to wondering which player will be the next Hall of Famer to represent...

Hall of Famer Craig Biggio poses with a young Astros fan in the Baseball Hall of Fame’s plaque gallery last weekend. (Photo by Larry Brunt, National Baseball Hall of Fame & Library) Since moving to upstate New York in the late 1980s, I’ve experienced...