It all started when a Reddit user discovered that Scott Rolen’s Hall of Fame page was different than the rest of the nominees. Before the results were announced, https://baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/rolen-scott was a functioning URL. The rest of the nominees, and most relevantly at the time, Todd Helton, produced a Page Not Found error.
That’s not where it all started though. It started on August 1st, 1996, when a fresh-faced 21-year-old Scott Rolen made his MLB debut. He wasn’t very good in his first two months of play, he wasn’t terrible either. But the next season, he was good.