seamheads.com - 1/19/2009
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How Jim Rice has a Hall plaque WARNING: This is going to be a true soapbox rant. He gets to sign baseballs like this now: Jim Rice, HOF 2009. So how did he become “famous” enough for Cooperstown?
A Jim Rice Post (sorry)
walksaber.blogspot.com 12/16/2008 — I really don’t want this to be about Jim Rice or the Hall of Fame, but you may not believe me if you keep reading. What I really want to do here is make a point, and Rice just happens to serve as the example. However, the Hall of Fame debates are near ...
Jim Rice ‘Restless’ but not about Hall
bostonherald.com 1/9/2009 — S ay this about Jim Rice: He was never much of a politician as a player and he has never been much of a politician as an ex-player. This is why those members of the Baseball Writers Association of America, who each year are entrusted with determining ...
McGwire snub telling
blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com 1/12/2009 —
As you may have heard, Rickey Henderson and Jim Rice both made it into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Henderson was a no-brainer, given his dominance of so many statistical categories in Ty Cobb-esque form. Rice's inclusion was a ...
The Murph
joeposnanski.com 1/13/2009 — I have some Hall of Fame reaction, of course. But first, I had this ready to roll when Rice got in.
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Now that Jim Rice is in the Baseball Hall of Fame, I want to ask my fellow voters to take a very, very hard look at Dale Murphy. I have ...
Jim Rice Always a Hall of Famer Says Kid He Saved
blacksportsonline.com 1/21/2009 — It took Jim Rice 15 years to finally make it to Cooperstown, NY. People will dispute his numbers. Fans do that from time to time. Sometimes, fans get caught up too much in the numbers game. How dominant was he? He hit less than half the number of homeruns than Babe Ruth...he hit less than ...
Rice: Free agents win you championships. Except when they don’t.
hardballtimes.com 1/19/2009 — Here's Jim Rice on why he never won a championship in Boston:
"During that time, Steinbrenner spent more money than the Red Sox. He had more free agents. So when you get the best free agents, and you get the superstars from other ballclubs, that's what made you have a better team. The more ...
Celizic: Don't talk to me about Rice's numbers - Baseball
nbcsports.msnbc.com 1/13/2009 — For me, there wasn’t any question about Jim Rice being a Hall of Famer. Year after year, I voted for him in the annual vote by the Baseball Writers Association of America. And year after year, the best hitter of his generation fell short of election. ...
This Just In…Rice is IN!
baseballreflections.com 1/19/2009 — Image via Wikipedia I just got the e-mail from Boston.com , Jim Rice (my favorite player growing up), in his last year of eligibility, was finally elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame by the BWAA! Here’s the story on the election of Rice and Rickey Henderson (in his first year ...
New York Yankees Headlines of the Day —
Bleacher Report - MLB 1/19/2009
(Zell's Pinstripe Blog)
Here are a bunch of headlines swirling around Yankees Universe today:
Bill Madden writes about the talks that went on about Manny Ramirez . He mentioned how the Yankees were “ready to go at least two ...
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