By Chas A blog called Baseball Past and Present is asking its readers and other baseball writers to vote on the 50 best players not enshrined in Cooperstown, not including those who haven't been retired long enough to be eligible. The latter condition means this includes all players who haven't played since 2005. Ballots are due by December 1, and I just learned about … [Read more...] about 50 Best Baseball Players not in the Hall of Fame
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Cooking with Chas: My All-Lifetime Team, Part 2
This is the second in a two-part series in which I'm naming my all-lifetime team, that is the greatest players who've played a minimum of ten seasons between 1974 and the present. … [Read more...] about Cooking with Chas: My All-Lifetime Team, Part 2
Cooking with Chas: My All-Lifetime Team, Part 1
With just a week to go until pitchers and catchers report for spring training, and discussions of the economic state of Major League Baseball and its impact on the free agent market growing rather old, it's time to turn our hot stove focus away from the present and do a little reminiscing. To that end, I thought it would be interesting to name my all-lifetime team. That is, the … [Read more...] about Cooking with Chas: My All-Lifetime Team, Part 1
Cooking with Chas: Rating the 2009 Hall of Fame Class (Part 2)
In the second part of this analysis, I'm going to look at the Hall of Fame resumes of a handful of borderline candidates. … [Read more...] about Cooking with Chas: Rating the 2009 Hall of Fame Class (Part 2)
Cooking with Chas: Rating the 2009 Hall of Fame Class (Part 1)
With the latest Hall of Fame vote coming up on Monday, I thought that this week it would be appropriate to take a look at this year's class. I'm going to discuss not only who I think deserves induction and why, but also try to predict who I believe will get in. … [Read more...] about Cooking with Chas: Rating the 2009 Hall of Fame Class (Part 1)