It’s Hall of Fame consideration season. For the rest of the calendar year, Connections will be looking at some of the names on the 2025 ballot. On Tuesday, June 2, 1998, the Brewers hosted the Braves for the second contest in a three-game set. Thanks to the new alignment […]
It’s Hall of Fame consideration season. For the rest of the calendar year, Connections will be looking at some of the names on the 2025 ballot. It’s July 21, 2004, and the Indians are hosting Mark Buehrle and the White Sox. Through six-and-a-half innings, Chicago has erupted […]
With the Hall of Fame ballot available for assigned voters to muse over, I’m reminded of the thought I had at this time last year: This process is getting harder. That isn’t even taking into account the lingering issue of whether to vote for players with the stigma of […]
On October 27, 1991, before more than 55,000 fans in the Metrodome and another 50-plus million enthralled by their televisions, Jack Morris accomplished the unprecedented: an extra-inning shutout in a winner-take-all World Series game. As difficult as it would have been to predict such an exceptional and striking showcase, it’s […]