2025 Baseball Hall of Fame Class

Evans also had one of his best offensive seasons in 1981 which everyone ignores because it was a strike year.

 

Good week for Toms

Tom Hamilton wins the Frick Award

 

What's it going to take to get Kruk and Kuip in? Should they just do Baseball 101 every night instead of talking about ships in the Cove? Or stop praising fans when they make great catches of foul balls without spilling their beer, then give the ball to a kid?

 

Blame the 13 living winners -- they vote on who joins the club along with three others

 

Who won't announce the votes or show any accountability. Sorry, but waited too long for Bill King to get in. [/fanboi] [/westcoadtbias]

 

I loved Bill King and thoroughly enjoyed his work (IMHO his basketball was the best "and Barry makes him paint the ceiling") but Kruk and Kuip are simply better.

 

Amazing that Bill King's third-best sport was baseball (and he actually did minor league hockey!). His work with the Warriors and Raiders was so impressive that it somewhat overshadows what he did with the A's. If Chick Hearn was the top NBA play-by-play guy outside of Johnny Most, Bill was a close No. 2. And during the glory years of the late '60s and early '70s, listening to Bill describe the Holy Roller and other iconic Oakland moments was exquisite.

He painted word pictures that put you right on the field, with Lamonica and Stabler, Banaszak and Hubbard, Biletnikoff and Wells, plus all the great defensive stars and the ageless George Blanda. A real treat for a kid who wanted to do that for a living.

It's a shame in a way the rest of the country didn't really experience how good Bill King was. A complete professional.

 

Complete agreement. His Warriors pbp in the one winter I lived in Oakland (73-74) was amazingly good.

 

The earliest of returns

With 28 ballots revealed/~7.2% known:
Ichiro - 100%
Sabathia - 92.9%
Wagner - 85.7%
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Beltrán - 64.3%
Andruw - 57.1%
A-Rod - 42.9%
Utley - 42.9%
Pettitte - 39.3%
Ramírez - 39.3%
Vizquel - 25.0%
Rollins - 21.4%
Buehrle, K-Rod - 10.7%
Abreu, Félix, Kinsler, Pedroia, Wright - 7.1%

Of note: Billy Wagner has already received four of the five votes he needed from last time. Beltran has already gained six votes.