It’s about time for baseball to begin its annual passion play, a test of intellectual honesty and moral values.
Front and center will be the Baseball Writers Association of America, not the usual guys but a more limited group of journalists who actually cover the game.
There are more than 700 BBWA members even as the number of newspaper journalists is declining in drastic proportions. (I am among them, although I never was a sportswriter. I did edit in the Akron Beacon Journal’s sports department for about eight years.
For background about BBWA, here is their website.
An alleged vote for the Hall
