Cooperstown
A-Rod, David Ortiz Headline 2022 Hall of Fame Ballot
Well, we may never see a Hall of Fame ballot like this ever again. I’m not sure if that’s a good or bad thing. For the past decade, we have had to deal with the annual debates about Player X and Y deserve to be inducted into Cooperstown despite their connections to PEDs. Some players from that era were able to breeze through on the first ballot – Ken Griffey, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, while others were off the ballot in one year. The whole thing can be exhausting, but at the same time this is part of the fabric of Major League Baseball. The steroid era is a part of their history, whether they want to acknowledge it or not. There is an entire generation of superstars that were in the public eye and baseball would prefer to ignore it. This class will be particularly inte...
Observations from a Trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame
This week I took a trip to my in-laws house in Syracuse for the holidays. But we decided to take the two hour drive to Cooperstown to check out the Baseball Hall of Fame. I’ve been there before but not since 2014, and as you know, there are players being added every year so there’s always something new to see. Growing up a Met fan, it was always disappointing that there was only one player inducted as a Met, the late Tom Seaver, but after Mike Piazza’s induction in 2016, that number has now doubled. Side note: It is kind of extraordinary how many Hall of Famers have spent time in a Mets uniform, but never spending the bulk of their careers there. The obvious ones are Nolan Ryan, Tom Glavine, Pedro Martinez and Gary Carter, but when you dig deeper there’s other playe...
