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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.

Earlier Wednesday, we posted a blank cartoon, and readers offered their captions. Our favorite was by commenter Mike_Williams7. Check your ESPN.com profile message center for an email. Thanks for participating. Check back Friday for another cartoo...

We got The Great Hall of Fame Shutout of 2013, a no-vote by the Baseball Writers Association of America that ensured induction weekend will be free of living beings for the first time in 50-plus years. Players accused (Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa) or k...

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 NASCAR voters are newbies in the process of picking inductees for its Hall of Fame, but the baseball writers could learn a thing or two from them these days about selecting new members. No one was deemed worthy of selection into the Baseball Hal...

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

Take a shot at writing a cartoon caption. Playbook cartoonist Kurt Snibbe will offer up a blank cartoon each weekday morning, and he will fill in the blank with our favorite reader submission at the end of the business day. So please, by all means...

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.

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum welcomed no new members on Wednesday, meaning the total number of players elected to the Hall in balloting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America remains at 112. Houston Astros icon Craig Bigg...

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...

US Presswire Barry Bonds (left) and Roger Clemens (right) fell short of induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility. For the first time since 1996, the Baseball Writers Association of America failed to elect a player t...

The paper in Cooperstown, N.Y., is called the Cooperstown Crier. The name goes back to the days of yore when a town crier would make public announcements in the streets. But it has taken on a different meaning of late, as in a town that is shed...

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.