Baseball’s Hall Of Fame Was Busted Long Before Harold Baines Got In
When you’re a hero of today’s game.Photo: Doug Pensinger (Allsport/Getty Images) It was terribly unfair of the “Today’s Game Era Committee” of the Baseball Hall of Fame to put Harold Baines in this position. When they elected Baines to the Hall on Dec. 9, the TGEC did him an honor, but also made him the foremost case study for the knowledge gap between those who control the Hall’s official validation process and the fans whose faith is the only thing that gives the Hall any relevance. Baines was never really a MVP candidate and his bad knees meant that he spent 60 percent of his career as a...
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