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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Uh-oh...Bill James and Joe Carter going in together. Or as James wrote in the NHBA..."I think it is hard to say that the record shows that Joe Carter deserves any special credit as a clutch hitter”
Bill James attended KU for four years but left without a degree to join the army in 1971. I’d love it if the university awarded him an honorary degree (if they haven’t already). James is certainly one of the most influential baseball writers of all time. In the 1970’s he almost single-handedly started a movement that allowed fans of the game to follow their hobby into even deeper layers of unhealthy obsession.
Repoz
Posted: February 12, 2008 at 12:29 PM | 5 comment(s)
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Good for Bill. Its really a shame that the Royals never hired him. I heard that Allard Baird once asked him to do a study for them. Bill did it and never heard from the Royals again. Wasted opportunity.
I'm really surprised it took this long for Phil Stephenson to get in. He's like the god of Shockers baseball, the best college baseball team in the state.
I'm really confused by who is in the "Kansas Baseball Hall of Fame" and who is in the "Wichita Sports Hall of Fame". The Kansas Baseball HOF only includes baseball players it would seem, and is not limited to just Wichita, whereas the Wichita Sports Hall of Fame is not limited to baseball, but is limited to just Wichita.
Interesting that Roberto Alomar is on the 2008 ballot for the Wichita Sports HOF for spending one season playing in the minors in Wichita.
For a brief moment in October 1993 he sure as hell was. :-)
Best Regards
John
But they did hire this guy. How come he's not in the Hall?
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