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Tim Raines' Hall of Fame Case Rock-Solid

Tim Raines gets my vote for the Baseball Hall of Fame every December. I wish Christmas shopping was as easy. Conversely, most of my fellow voters leave the box blank next to Raines, who has received, in order, 24.3 percent, 22.6 and 30.4 percent of the vote since first appearing on the ballot. It's easy to know why...

Hall of Fame's Last Class With Class?

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- Here's hoping everybody enjoyed Sunday's National Baseball Hall of Fame ceremony. The only rat they could smell was Whitey Herzog. The White Rat was inducted, and everyone was cheered. Starting next year the scent of steroids will be in the air, and there's no telling how people will react to those...

Andre Dawson Inducted Into Hall of Fame

The wait is over. Andre Dawson, the former Expos and Cubs outfielder known as "The Hawk," was the lone player inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame's class of 2010 Sunday in rainy Cooperstown, N.Y. Former Cardinals and Royals manager Whitey Herzog and former National League umpire Doug Harvey were enshrined in...

Hall of Fame Veterans Committee Adds Whitey Herzog, Doug Harvey

INDIANAPOLIS -- Umpire Doug Harvey and former manager Whitey Herzog were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee, it was announced Monday morning at the Winter Meetings.Herzog won six division titles with the Royals and Cardinals, going to the 1982, '85 and '87 World Series with St. Louis, winning in...

Jack Clark Knows How to Hold a Grudge

Things went pretty well for Jack Clark during his three years as a St. Louis Cardinal in the mid-1980s. He hit 66 homers and the Cardinals went to the World Series in 1985 and 1987. Sure, they dropped each of those series in seven games and the '86 Cardinals finished 28 1/2 games behind the Mets, but you'd think 20-plus...

Whitey Herzog News From the Web

05/18/12 HBT: Did Herzog tank games for draft position? Source: Open Mike This morning we linked a story in which the reporter paraphrased â but did not directly quote â Whitey Herzog as saying that he tanked games as manager of the Cardinals when his team was already out of the playoff race for purposes of improving draft position.
05/18/12 Whitey Herzog acquitted on charges of intentional... Source: Comcast SportsNet This morning we linked a story in which the reporter paraphrased â but did not directly quote â Whitey Herzog as saying that he tanked games as manager of the Cardinals when his team was already out of the playoff race for purposes of improving draft position.