Image Courtesy of Major League Baseball By Zachary Lichter Former Major League Baseball (MLB) players, Ichiro Suzuki, Carsten Charles Sabathia, and Billy Wagner’s life changed on January 21 when they ...
I try not to care about hall of fames because they are curated and maintained by human beings, which means they invariably apply subjective or inconsistent criteria for induction. While we might ...
Ichiro Suzuki was elected to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown on Tuesday. Qualified members of the Baseball Writers Association of America cast 394 votes for the players on this year’s ballot. Ichiro ...
If Jones was one of the best players of his generation, he would have had serious support right from the start. Instead, he was basically ignored. How did he become worthy of Cooperstown in that short ...
Countless people have called out the voter, including NJ Advance Media’s Bob Klapisch, who called the voter the “Clown of the ...
Ichiro Suzuki was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame this week, and it was almost unanimous—save for one member of the ...
The removal of any player from the Hall of Fame is unlikely, but not impossible. The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum's BBWAA rules for election do not outline any process for removing an ...
Mariano Rivera's dominance as an MLB player is clear from the fact that he is the only player in history to have achieved a Unanimous Hall of Fame Induction.
Billy Wagner, elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame on his final year on ballot, visits Cooperstown ahead of July's induction ceremony.
Only great Yankees All World reliever, Mariano Rivera, was unanimously elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. That’s it. Nobody else. Both Babe Ruth, and Honus Wagner received 95.13% of the vote when ...
Suzuki made his Major League Baseball debut in 2001, winning the American League MVP award and Rookie of the Year. In 19 seasons with the Mariners, Yankees and Marlins, Suzuki racked up 3,089 hits and ...
While Mariano Rivera remains the only Hall of Famer to be voted in unanimously by the Baseball Writers Association of America, Ichiro joins Derek Jeter (2020) as the inductees who were one vote shy of ...