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Rickey Henderson, Jim Rice voted into Baseball Hall of Fame

— sports.espn.go.com — NEW YORK -- Rickey Henderson dashed into the Hall of Fame on his first try. Jim Rice... made it with a final swing. It's hard to imagine their induction speeches will have much in common, either. "I'm going to leave all the stories to Rickey," Rice said, ... (more) Rickey Henderson, Jim Rice voted into Baseball Hall of Fame

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Jim Rice Interview Highlights From MLB Network

— bizofbaseball.com — Jim Rice was interviewed by phone live with Greg Amsinger, Harold Reynolds, Barry Larkin, Tom Verducci and... Jon Heyman on MLB Network today, just a few minutes after his election to the Hall of Fame was announced. Here are some excerpts. ON GETTING INDUCTED IN HIS 15TH AND FINAL YEAR ON THE ... (more) Jim Rice Interview Highlights From MLB Network

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Rickey Henderson, Jim Rice voted into Baseball Hall of Fame

— sports.espn.go.com — NEW YORK -- Rickey Henderson sped his way into the Hall of Fame on the first ballot... Monday, and Jim Rice made it in on his 15th and final try. Henderson, baseball's career leader in runs scored and stolen bases, received 94.8 percent of the vote from ... (more) Rickey Henderson, Jim Rice voted into Baseball Hall of Fame

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Corner OF's Henderson and Rice voted into Hall of Fame
Mets Tailgate — ... Rice may have been the 3rd best OF on his own team during much of his career (behind Evans and Fred Lynn) and he makes the Hall. Meanwhile Bert Blyleven garners 62.7%, Tim Raines 22.6% and Alan Trammell 17.4%. Whatever. I came across a great quote from Joe Sheehan at Baseball Prospectus: ...

JAWS Attacks the 2009 Ballot
The Futility Infielder — ... while Raines' vote total actually dropped. I'm elated about Henderson -- about whom Bill James once famously wrote, "If you could split him in two, you'd have two Hall of Famers" -- making the Hall, but that was a no-brainer; what was surprising was that 28 writers left him off the ballot, thus committing mail fraud. As for Rice, I've railed against his candidacy and the late groundswell of support he received, support which is founded in mythology rather than performance (Joe Sheehan hit this one out of the park) and, in my mind, some amount of guilt on behalf of the writers ...

Does He Deserve A Cooperstown Spot?
FirstCuts — ... as one of the two new inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame, along with Rickey Henderson. Rice's candidacy put baseball's generation gaps into stark contrast. As Joe Sheehan of Baseball Prospectus put it: "Rice’s honor is about late baby boomer sportswriters a little bit fazed, a little bit daunted, by the objectivist revolution in baseball validating their own youth, their own memories, their own relevance." Where more ...

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ESPN Feed: neyer rob — ... . • According to our friend Joe Sheehan , Jim Rice's election "is about late baby boomer sportswriters a little bit fazed, a little bit daunted, by the objectivist revolution in baseball validating their own youth, their own memories, their own relevance." You may have seen Keith Law's ...

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Tyler's Take On Sports — ... Why was Jim Rice elected to the Hall of Fame in his 15th and final time on the ballot, you ask. Joe Sheehan has the answer here. ...