Live BBA chat on Hall of Fame

Tonight on The Hall of Very Good 

We are having a live chat about the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot before tomorrow's announcement of the 2011 inductees.

Join us for a great debate about the grand old game of baseball.

BBA Baseball Talk Radio

Join Steve Keane tonight @ 11 PM on BBA Baseball Talk

Topics will include the off season for the Philadelphia Phillies, the Hall of Fame voting by the members of the BBA, and tomorrows Hall of Fame announcement.

The Baseball Bloggers Alliance is a collection of baseball bloggers who cover baseball from nearly every aspect of the game, including blogs on current big league teams, general baseball coverage, and the history of the game.

BBA: Blyleven and Alomar recommended for Hall of Fame

286 game winner Bert Blyleven, and 10 time Gold Glove winning shortstop Roberto Alomar have been recommended by the Baseball Bloggers Alliance for induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

Both Blyleven and Alomar received 75.97% of the vote, or 117 of 154 of the votes cast by the members of the BBA.

I was one of the members who were honored to vote for the Hall of Fame, and you can find my ballot here.

Barry Larkin, the 1995 MVP Cincinnati Reds shortstop finished third in the balloting, with 70.78% of all ballots cats.

The Baseball Writers Association of America vote for induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame will be released January 5th, live on the MLB Network @ 1PM.

Merry Christmas

Here we are, Christmas time. 

Was your big league club on the naughty list, and receive coal in last years stocking, like the Royals, Orioles, Pirates and Diamondbacks, or were they on the nice list, like the Giants, rewarded with visions of World Series rings dancing in their heads.

Will next year be our year, did Santa special deliver that much needed closer. back up catcher, or middle infielder.

Did ole Kris Kringle reward your team with that Cy Young winner, MVP, or special rookie you asked for?


Aren't we fans always good boys and girls, cheering on our team no matter what?


Well, maybe we shouldn't speak for New York fans, the Grinch always seems to have them covered.

So, here's to all the big league fans out there, see you in the spring.

Merry Christmas.

Happy Birthday to Mr. Tiger

Today we celebrate the birthday of the greatest right fielder to ever play for the Detroit Tigers, Mr. Tiger, Al Kaline.

Kaline patrolled the right field corner of Briggs and Tiger Stadium like he owned the place.

He did.

Possessing he best arm in baseball, Kaline ruled American League outfield's of the 1950's and 60's with reckless abandon, making great diving catch after great diving catch.

Many a base runner tested the rocket arm of Kaline, ending up wondering how the kid from Baltimore got to a ball that was a sure double, throwing them out at second base with a precise throw from "Kaline's Corner."

You can look up all of Al Kaline's stat's here, including his 3,007 hits, but what gave him the place in our hearts, what set him apart from other players, was simply that Kaline, each and ever day, was his grace and dignity.

Al Kaline loved playing baseball, and he love the Tigers, their fans, and he loved the City of Detroit.

Baseball fans in the Motor City took that skinny kid from Baltimore and made them one of their own, and for that, Kaline gave his heart and soul to the game he loved.

Every pitch, every play, every at bat, every day, every game,

                                      Happy Birthday Mr. Tiger.   

Happy Birthday to the Georgia Peach

124 years ago today, in the small town of Narrows, Georgia, the greatest hitter in the history of big league baseball was born.

Tyrus Raymond Cobb, "The Georgia Peach," was the most fierce and talented player to ever grace the diamond, and probably the most hated.

Ty Cobb/Hall of Fame 

Ty Cobb Official Web Site 

Whatever you think of Cobb's actions, he was the best hitter baseball has ever seen. 

12 batting titles, 4,191 hits, 2245 runs scored, and 892 stolen bases in a 24 year career, including 23 straight seasons of hitting .300 or better.

Oh, and a .367 lifetime batting average...a Major League Record.

The Georgia Peach was the first player selected into the inaugural class of the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936.

"Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded man. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, survival of the fittest."

Rapid Robert Feller

Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller passed away on Wednesday, at the age of 92.

I had the pleasure of meeting Feller, at a Jacksonville Suns game back in the late 1980's.

Feller was a true gentleman of the game, and he loved to talk baseball with fans.

He took time to sign a picture for me, and to tell me about facing off against the great Detroit Tigers teams of the day.

Feller was a great pitcher, the winner of 266 big league games, who served our country in WWII, in the Navy.

It's sad, to me, to lose these wonderful big league men who played so long ago.

I love the history of our great game, and listening to Feller talk baseball was a thrill, in person, and on TV.

I will always remember that talk with Feller, as special a man as you would ever have met.