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Sports Central August 25, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
Yes, Sandberg Deserves the Job Could it possibly hurt the Cubs to have a competent manager who just so happens to have a storied name of his own? They could do much worse. |
Sports Central January 27, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
Cooperstown Calling Commentary about recent Hall of Fame selections. |
Sports Central September 19, 2011 Louie Centanni |
Oh, Ryno, Give Us One More Chance If the Cubs want to have the best shot to return to prominence in the next three to five years, they need to make Ryne Sandberg their next manager. |
Sports Central January 17, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
The Dutchman and Other HOF Thoughts Well, now. I no longer have to apologize for championing Bert Blyleven as a Hall of Famer, which I've done for about the previous decade. He finally made it in his final try with the Baseball Writers Association of America. |
Science News July 30, 2005 Ivars Peterson |
Ticket to Cooperstown Is it really getting harder to get into baseball's Hall of Fame? That's the question that an economist and two of his students set out to answer with mathematics. |
Sports Central January 27, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
Ernie Banks, RIP: Always a Beautiful Day There is no joy in Wrigleyville. Mighty Ernie has checked out. At 83. Cub fans aren't the only ones in baseball's world who think that, for Ernie Banks, it's still too young to go. |
Sports Illustrated December 28, 2001 Tom Verducci |
One voter's Hall of Fame ballot Nearly every year, one name is added to the Hall of Fame ballot that gives me more trouble than usual. Eleven players are on the ballot for the first time this year. Only one of them emerged as a truly agonizing, tough call: Andre Dawson... |
Sports Central November 13, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
HOF Ballot: The Rest of the Newcomers That's the problem with Hall of Fame ballots. Other than the obvious there-because-it's-five-years-retired players, picking the worthies from among the newcomers is both a challenge and a lot of fun. |
Sports Central March 22, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
Great Players Becoming Great Managers At this writing, Don Mattingly could become a genuinely great manager in time or the next Mel Ott, a genuinely great player who went genuinely into the tank as a manager. Robin Ventura could go either way, too. |
Sports Central July 22, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
The Straw That Stirs the Stink Reggie Jackson certainly cut across the proverbial grain with his Sports Illustrated remarks questioning the Hall of Fame credentials of Jim Rice and Gary Carter. When the hoopla exploded he couldn't wait to back away from them |
Sports Central November 16, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
HOF Ballot: The Holdovers The holdover Hall of Fame ballot entrants are both an interesting and a troublesome group, largely because the recent rule changes limiting a Baseball Writers Association of America candidate to ten years on the ballot. |
Sports Central May 13, 2014 Andrew Jones |
Active MLB Players' HOF Chances Major League Baseball's active list of potential Hall of Fame careers appears relatively clean. Let's turn over a new leaf and look at some worthy active candidates. |
Sports Central January 13, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
A Hall Election and Nobody's Coming The Baseball Writers Association of America ended up electing nobody to the Hall of Fame. And I'm not sure which, among factors gaining serious discussion as the voting commenced and, at last, the results came in, may prove the most controversial of them all. |
Sports Central June 30, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
Essentially, Sandberg Fired the Phillies Ryne Sandberg decided not to wait for the coming front office shakeup that everyone except possibly the Phillies themselves really knew was well overdue. |
Sports Central December 28, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2015: It Got Late Early Out There The author ruminates on this year's baseball games and famous players of years past. |
Sports Central May 28, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
So, What's in a Retired Number? Haven't the Yankees retired way too many numbers? |
Sports Central January 8, 2005 Greg Wyshynski |
Sandbaging Sandbergs The author says he is also consistent when it comes to the Baseball Hall of Fame. He remains, as always, the Cooperstown Nazi. his Hall of Fame would have about 25% of the players currently enshrined. |
Sports Central August 22, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
A Not-So-Nice Finish The Chicago Cubs wanted Jim Hendry to hang around long enough to run the club's draft and get their draftees signed, but they didn't want him making any significant moves approaching the non-waiver trade deadilne. |
Sports Central January 10, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
It's Past Time to Fix the Hall of Fame Voting The good news on the Hall of Fame front: Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine are the first teammates to go into the Hall of Fame together on their first try. |
Sports Central December 31, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
2011: Dickens Flummoxed Baseball's 2011 season was the best of times and it was the worst of times. |
Salon.com January 17, 2003 Allen Barra |
Penalties, Part 2 The NFL's dreadful officiating can't be ignored anymore. One solution: Give one ref a TV. |
Sports Central May 4, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
The Letter of the Law, Written and Otherwise Baseball, for all its controversies and crises, remains as invigorating a game in discourse as it is in play. |
Sports Central October 29, 2004 Danny Sternfield |
Curse Snatcher: A Study in Cub Baseball The Cubs and the Red Sox both play in large markets with substantial payrolls, and both had not won a World Series in forever and a day. The difference between the two teams: Boston did something about it. |
Sports Central January 10, 2013 Kevin Beane |
Steroids, Character, and the Hall of Fame Good job, Hall of Fame voters. I'm not sure whether or not to keep off-the-field villains out of the Hall or not, but please continue to keep baseball cheaters out of the baseball Hall of Fame. Thank you. |
Outside October 2004 |
Halls of Fame: A List of the World's Best Our favorite shrines to greatness: International Swimming Hall of Fame... U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame... International Surfing Hall of Fame... U.S. Ski Hall of Fame... etc. |
Sports Central July 9, 2009 Jonathan Lowe |
Shame in Their Fame? Next Tuesday will be a night when older baseball stars show off for the masses, and rising performers will stake their claim to future success. |