SportsPulse: Steve Gardner sits down with Jorge Ortiz and Bob Nightengale to discuss who is a lock for the Baseball Hall of Fame and who might have trouble getting in. USA TODAY Sports
As a longtime member of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, Gene Myers, who retired in 2015 as sports director of the Free Press, has one of the roughly 425 ballots that will determine the rest of the Hall of Fame’s Class of 2018. Tigers greats Alan Trammell and Jack Morris previously were selected by a veterans committee.