Get the numbers on a Detroit Tigers' all-time great, Lou Whitaker Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press
Every once in a while, my faith in humanity is restored.
This happened recently when the most unlikely of sources, baseball writers, did something they had never done. They made New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera the first player elected unanimously to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
My fellow ink-stained wretches deserve kudos for this because, like a temperamental child who is slow to learn from his mistakes, they finally got it right after 83 years.
Yep.