Posts Tagged ‘HOF’
Tommy John and His Thoughts On The Hall Of Fame
Just a quicl post. Last night I caught about 2 minutes of an interview of Tommy John on the Hot Stove show.
He was asked about how he felt not getting elected in the alloted 15 years. What he said blew me away. He said that if he does get elected in by the veteran’s committee, it would mean more to him to be voted in by his peers than from writers who mostly look at stats.
I’ll have to think about for awhile.
One more Thing About Jeff Kent…
So the word going around the internet is that Jeff Kent is an “accidental Hall of Famer”. Here we go again with useless terminology to squeeze out another “filler article” on a sports page.
Look, so the guy wasn’t flashy, or that he took a few years to develope into on of the best all round 2nd basemen ever. Yes, one of the best! Check out his numbers…they beat out Ryne Sandberg’s numbers…BIG TIME. 351 homeruns as a second baseman, first place in that category. 100 RBI’s for six consecutive seasons and eight times in all. Not too shabby.
He played the game the way I like. With day-in-day-out determination and grit that the game should be played with of an infielder. He carried himself on and off the field with integrity and honor. Too bad he his more thought of getting into arguments with Milton Bradley and Barry Bonds. But that’s “shock value TV ratings” for ya.
Oh well. What can you do. For those who remember the Jeff Kent, you will be able to remember that you could always count on him to give his best, day after day, game after day. For that, along with his numbers, he SHOULD be a shoe-in for the HOF.
24 Years Ago Today…
Dwight Gooden breaks the season strikeout record for a rookie by whiffing 16 Pirates. Gooden’s total of 251 is six more than Herb Score’s 1955 mark.
Doc K had the world at his fingertips, with a blazing, heavy fastball, and a curveball named “Lord Charles”. Many of very good hitters made many of walks back to the dugout with their bats not even coming close to hitting his pitches.
Such a shame that Gooden succumbed to the disease of alcohol and drugs. I would have liked to have taken my boys to Cooperstown one day and told them stories of him pitching while looking at his plaque for induction.
