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Eliminating Cooperstown Candidates as Easy as Picking Them

With the clock ticking toward the midnight deadline on New Year's Eve, I'm sitting here looking at my 2011 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot. And you know what? Something keeps occurring to me after more than two decades of filling out these things. This is going to be so easy. Roberto Alomar gets a check mark next to his...

Near Misses Headline Hall Snubs

Earlier Wednesday, it was announced that the BBWAA has selected Andre Dawson for enshrinement into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. Let's check out the players from this year's ballot who did not make it, their cases, and their shot to make it in in future years. On the Cusp Bert Blyleven: His case been covered...

FanHouse's 2010 Hall of Fame Ballot

The 2010 Baseball Hall of Fame class will be announced on Wednesday afternoon at 2 PM ET. With seven Hall of Fame voters on staff, FanHouse made a small but significant impact on this year's election. Below are the results of how each FanHouse staff member voted on their 2010 ballot as well as a list of each candidate...

BaseCast: Playing the Fame Game

It's a baseball podcast. The math is easy, right? BaseCast. Let's rock. What goes into the Hall of Fame voting process? What criteria do voters use as they go down the ballot? And who from this year's class of Cooperstown contenders should get in this time around? Two of FanHouse's own Hall gatekeepers, Jeff Fletcher...

Should Jason Isringhausen Spend 2009 On Detroit's DL?

The story of the Detroit Tigers has been pretty much the same over the last two seasons. In 2007, their bullpen cost them a chance to reach the playoffs and get back to the World Series, and in 2008 it was the bullpen bringing down a team that many thought would be the best in the American League after a winter trade for...

Lee Smith News From the Web

05/31/12 West Xtra: Ambridge regroups, wins WPIAL volleyball... Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Pittsburgh PA Ambridge Area senior Justin Gleason had already experienced the euphoria of winning a WPIAL boys volleyball title, but this time around was much different.
05/30/12 Fertility gene may lead to male birth control pill Source: Sarasota Weekly Planet - Tampa FL Researchers hope that the secret to discovering the first male birth control drug may be in identifying, understanding, and neutralizing genes that influence sperm production.
05/30/12 MP opens refurbished education centre in Bexleyheath Source: This is Local London - London - UK A REFURBISHED after-school learning centre was reopened last week.
05/29/12 Beat the Heat Summer Series; Lee Smith Horsemanship... Source: Bridle & Bit - Phoenix AZ Lee Smith lives on a cattle ranch outside of Wickenburg, Arizona.
05/29/12 Former Forest Green footballer to stand trial over... Source: Stroud News & Journal - UK FORMER Forest Green Rovers midfielder Lee Smith has been told he will stand trial for allegedly posting a racist Tweet on Remembrance Day despite defence claims that the case would be unfair.