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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...

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06/02/12 BOYS' VOLLEYBALL: Suburban advances to PIAA finals Source: The York Dispatch - York PA It wasn't easy, but the York Suburban boys' volleyball team accomplished a goal it set out to achieve since the beginning of the season.
06/01/12 Swing into safety in Niagara Falls Source: Niagara this Week - ON - Canada That classic conversation held on many a school yard as kids swap trading cards now have a little different meaning, thanks to the Fire Marshal's Public Fire Safety Council and The Toronto Blue Jays. And for a second year, the Niagara Falls Fire Department is participating into the Swing Into Summer Safety Program, aimed at instilling good safety practices âincluding fire safety â in children.
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.