The annual ballot for the Baseball Hall of Fame has been released.
The Hall of Fame is not on my special attentions list as through the years it has been watered down more than the whiskey at a sailor’s bar in Manila. The HOF is absolutely packed with players of questionable stature and others have been omitted for reasoning that escapes me. But that does not stifle me from my own Speaker’s Corner to express my deep-rooted angst over one exclusion.
The last ballot did catch my attention and I woke from my usual HOF stupor with a number dancing before my squinting eyes – 39.