On February 2, 1936, the Baseball Writers’ Association of America announced the results of the first Hall of Fame election, and the arithmetic turned out to be brutal. 226 ballots had come back, and... Read More →
There was a second ballot in 1936, and it elected nobody. Alongside the writers choosing the modern stars, a panel of seventy-eight old-timers was asked to pick the great players of the nineteenth century,... Read More →
Randy Johnson stood six feet ten inches tall and threw left-handed, which is roughly the baseball equivalent of being struck by lightning that has had a moment to aim. From a release point that... Read More →
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