wezen-ball.blogspot.com - 12/30/2008
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Was Jim Rice truly "feared" in his time ? In recent years, it has become very much in vogue to discuss the merits of Jim Rice's candidacy for the Hall of Fame. Similar to Jack Morris, proponents of Rice's candidacy cite two key areas as their basis for support: his traditional batting ...
joeposnanski.com - 1/5/2009
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Bill James has told me — more than
once — that if he had a Hall of...
Fame vote, he would probably vote for the maximum of ten players every year, or as close to ten as he could justifiably go. As he wrote: “I would always prefer to ...
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Hall of Fame Ballot 2009
seamheads.com - 12/29/2008
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Other than winning a World Series, most baseball
players’ ultimate goal is to reach the Hall of...
Fame. This is rarely a quickly accomplished goal; just ask Jim Rice, Bert Blyleven, or any number of players who played very well during their career but have agonized for years over not being ...
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The Test of Time
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Contemporaneous accounts of Jim Rice
THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball —
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He was probably the “most feared” in 1978. Other years, Schmidt and Brett and Eddie Murray (and on and on) were more “feared”. In any case, the two stupidest arguments about the Hall of Fame ("he was the most feared of his generation”, and “he’s not rickey"), would both be embarrassing arguments in an elementary school paper; how editors decide to allow such b.s. in national media is nothing but an insult to its readership.
Was Jim Rice feared?
The Hardball Times —
Wezen-ball has a nice research piece on whether Jim Rice was the most "feared" slugger of his time. Personally, I find this whole "feared" thing to be an bizarre way of judging a player to be Hall of Fame material. Dick Allen was feared in his day, but that seems to work against him. ...
Darkness falls across the land
Joe Posnanski —
... – Interesting rundown on Jim Rice and whether the stories written during his day considered him to be “feared.” You may be all Riced out; I must admit that somewhere along the way I crossed that line. But this piece is still a lot of fun, and it includes a snippet of a story by Columbia, S.C.’s Bob Spear — a very nice man, by the way — who briefly tried to make the case that Fenway Park HURT Rice. He even had a quote to back up the bizarre premise: “The park has hurt him,” agreed Twins superscout Ellis Clary. “I remember Charlie Dressen talking about how Joe ...
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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. ...
Was Jim Rice feared?
hardballtimes.com 12/30/2008 — Wezen-ball has a nice research piece on whether Jim Rice was the most "feared" slugger of his time . Personally, I find this whole "feared" thing to be an bizarre way of judging a player to be Hall of Fame material. Dick Allen was feared in his day, but that seems to work against him.
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