Editor’s note: Please welcome the latest from Alex Putterman. ____________________ Claim to Fame: Brown pitched for six Major League teams in his 19-year career, and while our lasting memory of the righty might be of him floundering in the Bronx, his pre-Yankee days were filled with high innings counts and low ERAs. By the time Brown [...]
Archive for the ‘Does he belong in the Hall of Fame?’ Category
Does he belong in the Hall of Fame? Jeff Bagwell
Posted: 10th January 2012 by Graham Womack in Jeff BagwellClaim to fame: This isn’t the first Hall of Fame column about Bagwell, far from it, though I’ve noticed something in reading the other pieces. They generally fall into two camps. The first dismiss Bagwell as a possible steroid user. There is no evidence for this. Bagwell never failed a PED test, never showed up in [...]
Does he belong in the Hall of Fame? Vince Coleman
Posted: 27th December 2011 by Graham Womack in Vince ColemanClaim to fame: I saw Vince Coleman got a few votes in my recent project on the 50 best players not in the Hall of Fame, six votes out of 86 ballots to be precise, and I noticed something interesting. I noticed this thing again in a forum discussion on Monday over at Baseball Think Factory. [...]
What he did: Let’s be clear– I don’t consider Ron Cey a Hall of Famer. The point of this column isn’t to mount a hopeless case that Cey belongs in Cooperstown. The power-hitting third baseman didn’t come close to making the Top 50 in my recent project on the best players not in the Hall [...]
Does he belong in the Hall of Fame? Bill King
Posted: 22nd November 2011 by Graham Womack in Bill KingClaim to fame: King was a fixture on sports broadcasts in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond for four decades. The voice of the Oakland A’s from 1981 until his death in 2005, King did a bit of everything well, also calling Warriors games from 1962 until 1983 and Raider games from 1966 until 1992. [...]
Does he belong in the Hall of Fame? Albert Pujols
Posted: 15th November 2011 by Graham Womack in Albert PujolsClaim to fame: Let’s be clear. This isn’t a column about whether Albert Pujols will eventually have a plaque in Cooperstown. This much is almost certain already. At 31, 11 seasons into a storied career, and currently the hottest thing on the free agent market, Pujols looks on track to one day rank as a [...]
Editor’s Note: Please welcome Jon Daly to the site. Jon puts in long hours down at BaseballThinkFactory.org and is no relation to anyone who has golfed professionally. ____________________ Claim to fame: After graduating from Amherst College and spending a stint in the Air Force, Dalton took a front-office job with the Baltimore Orioles. Jim McLaughlin, the iconoclastic [...]
Does he belong in the Hall of Fame? Curt Flood
Posted: 23rd August 2011 by Graham Womack in Curt FloodEditor’s note: Does he belong in the Hall of Fame? was a past regular feature here. It will resume on a weekly basis the first Tuesday after the postseason ends. Claim to fame: Flood hit .293 over 15 seasons and was one of the best outfielders of his generation, winning seven straight Gold Gloves from [...]
This is the final edition of Does he belong in the Hall of Fame? due to scheduling changes for this site that will take effect next week. For more information, go here. _______________ Claim to fame: I don’t know if this rates for anything, but Oliva may have been the first player who I was [...]
Does he belong in the Hall of Fame? Roger Maris
Posted: 17th May 2011 by Graham Womack in Roger MarisClaim to fame: This October will mark the 50th anniversary of Roger Maris’s 61st home run in the 1961 season. It broke Babe Ruth’s 34-year single season record and stood another 37 years until Mark McGwire hit 70 home runs in 1998, and it remains the defining achievement for Maris. He was a back-to-back MVP, [...]