If you think Thanksgiving will be awkward when politics are brought up at dinner tables across this divided country, wait until the real nasty fights start later this week when veteran members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America receive their Hall of Fame ballots.
In some circles, those Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton arguments will seem tame compared to the vitriol heaped on the men and women who decide that Tim Raines doesn’t deserve a place among the immortals. Or does he?
I once attended a Christmas party where the host warned me as soon as I walked into her house that her dad wanted to yell at me about my Hall of Fame ballot because he read that I voted for players accused of using performance-enhancing drugs.