Even as we look across the fence at our neighbor and wonder what’s wrong with that guy? we like to believe in the wisdom of crowds.
On Wednesday, when the latest Baseball Hall of Fame class is announced and Tigers great Alan Trammell joins the rest of his former 1984 teammates in being shut out from Cooperstown, that belief will be severely tested.
One of that decade’s best teams has for no good reason failed to catch the eye of the baseball writers who get to make the official declaration of just who the best of the best really are.