Luis Tiant, the colorful right-handed pitcher best known for his years with the Boston Red Sox, passed away at 83 just five weeks ago. Last week, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum announced that Tiant would be one of the eight candidates for Cooperstown on the “Classic Baseball Era Committee.” The cigar-chomping Cuban-born […]
Dick Allen: On the Hall of Fame Ballot Once Again
Dick Allen, one of baseball’s greatest hitters from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, will have another chance to get inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum this December as one of the eight candidates for the Classic Baseball Era Committee ballot. Three years ago, Allen was the first to set a […]