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Chris Carter, Ronny Cedeno and Brandon Laird homered, Lucas Harrell pitched seven innings, and the Houston Astros beat the Seattle Mariners 10-3 on Wednesday.

On the theory that when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade, baseball fans and Cooperstown merchants need to get behind the Deacon White, who will be the only player entering the Hall this year.

Craig Biggio thinks he might have been bypassed for the Hall of Fame because he was on the ballot for the first time with several big stars linked to performance-enhancing drugs.

The biggest loser in Wednesday's Hall of Fame shutout was not Barry Bonds or Roger Clemens, two all-time greats who got about one-third of the vote. The biggest loser wasn't Craig Biggio, whose very strong first-year showing makes it all bu...

Blog | January 10, 2013

Jack Morris is an example of why the Hall of Fame voting rules need to change, writes Buster Olney.

Blog | Conversation | January 10, 2013

Owners in pinstriped suits. Umpires. General managers. But players? Not so much. Welcome to the Baseball Hall of Fame's future.

Is this a sad day for baseball? Maybe not. There will be another election next year and one the year after that. I presume onward into the future players will get elected. But this year? The Baseball Writers' Association of America struck out. Nob...

No players received the required 75 percent of the vote required for induction into Baseball's Hall of Fame, it was announced Wednesday. Craig Biggio got the highest vote total with 68.2 percent (388). Curt Schilling got 38.8 percent of the vot...

For the first time since 1996, no players were elected to the Hall of Fame by baseball writers.

Craig Biggio is the most likely candidate to get the Hall call today, although the polling results indicate that it's very possible that nobody from this year's Hall of Fame ballot will be inducted in July, as the baseball writers sort thro...

Blog | January 09, 2013

Buster Olney says that while he thinks players with a PED past should be in the Hall of Fame, that information should be included on their plaques. He even writes sample plaques for Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire.

Blog | Conversation | January 09, 2013

I've mentioned this before: While the Baseball Writers Association of America have become very stingy on their Hall of Fame elections (and that's aside from the candidates associated with PEDs), other groups are just as stingy -- if not more so. T...

ESPN's 18 Hall of Fame voters would elect Craig Biggio to be part of the Class of 2013.

I reached the 10-year mark as a member of the Baseball Writers Association of America in 2010, earning -- or at least qualifying for -- a Hall of Fame vote. The minute I got my first ballot, jammed into that big, yellow envelope with the antique scr...

Some stuff out there on the Internet, Hall of Fame related ... 1. Joe Posnanski with a fun post on the Topps numbering system -- if you collected cards, you remember the best players would get card No. 100 or 300 or whatever, stars would get No...

Craig Biggio isn't the best player on this year's controversial Hall of Fame ballot, but he might have the best chance of being elected.