(Chuck Crow?The Plain Dealer)
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- This is a story about four Cleveland Indians, an abstention and the muddled process by which baseball determines those who get to be remembered as the best who ever played the game.
1. Maybe it's fitting that the Baseball Hall of Fame is in Cooperstown, N.Y., a quaint village whose place as the actual birthplace of baseball is as big a myth as the Scottish village Brigadoon, which shimmered to life for one day every 100 years in the Broadway musical.
2. Even at that, Brigadoon will be around more often than Kenny Lofton on Hall of Fame ballots.