CLEVELAND, Ohio -- I'm always fascinated by the other end of the spectrum when it comes to the Baseball Hall of Fame results.
Each year, there are a handful of players who receive one, two, maybe three votes. How is it that one person can be so thoroughly convinced that Garret Anderson deserves a spot among the game's greats, and only that one person believes that? Perhaps the party responsible for Anderson's lone tally watched the steady outfielder for years in California and opted to cast a courtesy vote.
Longtime catcher Terry Steinbach, who received one vote in 2005, once told me he wanted to approach that voter and ask him: "What the hell were you watching?