Archive for 'January,2018 '
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
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
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
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 [...]