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Joe Posnanski outlines the biggest problem with electing marginal (at best) Hall of Famers. We've all trod that ground before, but Joe's really good and if we can't re-trod, where are we? But it's this last little bit that I wanted to show you, becau...

From the middle of The Common Man's ode to the manly awesomeness of Frank Howard (one of my favorite players who I never actually saw): In fact, it might be helpful to think of Frank Howard as the player everyone thinks Jim Rice was. Like Rice, How...

Did you know that if you click on the highlighted items, you'll make me happy and learn quite a bit more about baseball than if you don't? It's true! • When Jim Rice looks at Zack Greinke, does he see other skinny-but-dominant righ...

Yikes: Jim Rice's advice to Little Leaguers: Don't use today's major-leaguers as role models. Speaking to players before the start of the Little League World Series, the new baseball Hall of Famer said today's major-leaguers are to...

Today's links were thrown together at the last minute, but with all the love and support that I could muster ... • David Pinto compares perfecto-saving catches, and he's right: There's no comparison! • Hearty kudos to Steven...

Keith Woolner speaks (and I recommend the whole interview, for sure) ... Andrew (Nueva York): Keith, thanks for taking the question. What advice would you offer someone desiring to work in a major league baseball front office? Keith Woolner: I get...

Already looking ahead to 2010, Larry Stone wonders what will happen when Edgar Martinez first appears on the Hall of Fame ballot: A closer examination of [Jim] Rice's statistics, under the lens of recently developed analytical tools, caused many in...

Roberto Alomar, Barry Larkin, Fred McGriff and Edgar Martinez will be on the Hall of Fame ballot for 2010, but only Alomar is likely to get elected on the first try.

The thing is done. Now we can stop talking about Jim Rice, until a respectful period has passed and we can simply add him to the list of good players -- Bruce Sutter, Catfish Hunter and Orlando Cepeda come to mind -- who don't really belong in the Ha...

Last week the New York Times' Dan Rosenheck proposed a fairly radical change to the Hall of Fame's voting procedures: Hall of Fame voters are a fickle bunch. Neither Jim Rice nor Bert Blyleven has done anything to bolster his candidacy for enshrine...

In the Boston Globe today, Dan Shaughnessy makes (or regurgitates) a Hall of Fame case for Jim Rice, then writes this: On the other hand, we have members of Bill James Youth who've never been out of the house who believe Rice has no business being ...

In trying to explain how Jim Rice was one of the American League's most dominant players, the numbers just don't add up.

Story | Conversation | January 17, 2007

If Jim Rice is elected to the Hall of Fame, then Tim Raines, Dale Murphy and many others should gain entrance as well.

Story | Conversation | January 10, 2007