bostonherald.com - 1/9/2009
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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 which players deserve to be enshrined in the ...
web.baseballhalloffame.org - 1/12/2009
boston.com - 1/12/2009
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boston.com —
In his final at-bat, Jim Rice has hit
a home run. Rice, the fierce and feared slugger...
who spent his entire 16-year major league career with the Red Sox, was at last elected to to the Baseball Hall of Fame this afternoon on his 15th -- and final -- season on the ballot.
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Henderson & Rice in the Hall!
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Boston Red Sox News & Notes - 1/9
SOX & Dawgs —
... Jim Rice says he will be watching the Young and the Restless until 1:30 on the day the Baseball Hall of Fame could call. ...
The Young And The Riceless
A Red Sox Fan From Pinstripe Territory —
... Funny article about Jim Rice and his stories. I think I might do one of my "PREss releases" congratulating him on making the Hall, because I'm sure he's getting in.
The Week In Quotes: January 5-11 by Alex Carnevale
Baseball Prospectus —
... been watching it for 25 years. When I was playing for the Red Sox, we met some of the cast one day in Oakland. They were playing a softball game at the ballpark. Two or three of them were big Red Sox fans. I met the cast later on in Anaheim. I started watching the show and I was hooked." Rice "Miss Chancellor's coming back. She's this billionaire on the show. She had a look-alike that they buried, and everyone thinks it's her. But it's not. It's all incredible stuff." Rice ( Boston Herald ) NEGATIVE ...
Young and the Restless
Baseball Analysts —
... According to Rice, he will literally be watching "The Young and the Restless" on TV. "I'll be watching 'The Young and the Restless,' Rice told the Boston Herald. "It's over at 1:30, so that will give me a half hour. But I never miss 'The Young and the Restless' and I’m not going to start now." ...
Your Official Hall of Fame Congratulatory Post: Rickey Henderson and Jim Rice
Walkoff Walk —
... . Still, Jim Rice is famous, if only for his long, Susan Lucci-esque failure to win the big prize. (Also, he probably enjoys Lucci's oeuvre, having admitted to watching Young and the Restless) It's almost as if being barely not good enough for election to the Hall of Fame justified his election to the Hall of Fame. That's why I'm glad that Jim Rice is a HOFer, if only to promote my bizarre theories. ...
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seamheads.com 1/19/2009 — 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?
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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 ...
Notes From the Shadows of Cooperstown: January Thaw
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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 ...
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 ...
Jim Rice Makes it in
fangraphs.com 1/13/2009 — The Hall of Fame inductees were announced today. I was not aware that today would be that day and upon learning who got in, I found myself with two reactions: good for Rickey, he was a Hall of Fame worthy player no matter what rational criteria you ...
Rice calm as Hall results draw near —
Major League Baseball News 1/9/2009
Much like Jim Rice doesn't speak in any detail about the sting that came with falling short in his first 14 attempts at being elected into the Hall of Fame, he doesn't discuss the anticipation and nerves leading into Monday, when the vote could ...
