Archive for the ‘Hitters Hall of Fame’ Category

Postscript on my failed attempt to interview Bernie Carbo

Posted: 11th May 2010 by Graham Womack in Drugs in baseball, Hitters Hall of Fame
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I had my first “Where Are They Now” piece published last night on Baseball Savvy, a site I was recently invited to contribute to. I interviewed Billy O’Dell, who pitched for the Giants in the 1962 World Series, and our two cordial phone conversations contrasted with the run-in I had a few weeks before with [...]

Hall of Fame: Fred McGriff, yes. Honus Wagner, no?

Posted: 12th November 2009 by Graham Womack in Hitters Hall of Fame
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I ended my post yesterday with a joke about baseball creating a B-Level Hall of Fame where lesser candidates could be lionized. It could be located some place like Cleveland, feature a statue of Paul O’Neill or Kevin McReynolds in its promenade and celebrate perennial close-but-not-quite teams like the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1940s and [...]