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Evaluating WAAS, WAR As HOF Measuring Sticks
The results of this year’s Hall of Fame voting and with them a renewed debate about what actually makes a worthy candidate. This debate has been around for decades, before the question of steroids arose, and has more to do with voting on “very good players,” you know, the guys who are at the top of the league but not necessarily among the best ever. A wide range of opinions exists as to who should be enshrined in the hall. I personally am in the camp that says that only the best of
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When you look at images of baseball from the Sixties, you can see...
I haven't spoken to Pat Gillick since last Christmas, and it had been a while, maybe 2 years since I had spoken with him before that. In speaking with him last year, it was as though I had spoken with the former Blue Jays general manger the day before. He hadn’t changed at all. The Phillies...
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Former big league umpire Al Clark waged a one-man crusade. It was a losing battle but Clark fought it anyway.
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