Archive for 'January,2018 '

HOF: Blend of old with solid new class

HOF: Blend of old with solid new class

(Editor’s note: Three Golferswest.com writers, Jim Street, Bob Sherwin and Kirby Arnold were baseball beat writers for most of their newspaper careers, a troika with at least 100 years of coverage and at least 50 years [...]

Six make final cut on my HOF ballot

Six make final cut on my HOF ballot

Just like every other eligible Hall of Fame voter among the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, I recently received a letter from Joe Morgan (HOF class of 1990) asking me NOT vote for any HOF-eligible players [...]

Steroid users cheated spirit of the game

Steroid users cheated spirit of the game

Confession here. When it came time to put the final check marks to my Hall of Fame ballot, a side of me – albeit a teeny, tiny side – was tempted to vote for the proven [...]

Single deprived Boone of a cycle

Single deprived Boone of a cycle

Former Mariners Infielder Bret Boone turns the clock back to 2001. (As told to Jim Street)      Bret Boone had two stints with the Mariners during his 14-year Major League career and the first year of [...]