Counsel Corner
Two Simple Rules for Solving Baseball's Hall of Fame Voting Problem
Sharon resident and columnist Paul Izzo discusses the Baseball Writers Association of America's decision not to elect any former Major League players to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
This week, our nation was abuzz with talk about the recent decision of the Baseball Writers Association of America not to elect any former Major League players to the Baseball Hall of Fame. The voting scribes snubbed hardball greats such as Roger Clements, Barry Bonds and Jeff Bagwell, players whose performance in prior decades would have easily qualified them for immediate admission, because they believe that these players probably used steroids and other performance enhancing drugs and, therefore, are somehow undeserving of this ultimate honor. One can understand the writers’ reluctance to award bad behavior. The problem is that no one knows for sure whether most of these players ever actually used drugs to improve their performance. …
