Subject: National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

• Rice Grad to Break the Gender Barrier?

  March 27, 2007

• Don't Forget the Other Suckie Astros

  June 12, 2007

• Big Baseball Weekend. Real Big.

  August 6, 2007

• Fuzzy Math: Bowie Kuhn, Marvin Miller and the Baseball Hall of Fame

  December 5, 2007

• No Hall of Fame for Dale Murphy?

  January 9, 2008

• Spring Training: Pain, Pain and Ball Girls

  March 11, 2008

• Good News: Dale Petroskey Is Out of the Baseball Hall of Fame

  April 2, 2008

• Top Ten Sports Moments of 2008

  10. Danica Patrick won the Indy Japan 300 to become the first woman to win a major (NASCAR, Indy, Formula One) auto race. 9. Atlanta Braves pitcher Tom Glavine won his 300th game, then retired at the end of the season, to just about cement his selection into the Baseball Hall of Fame in five years. And if Randy Johnson signs a contract and can stay healthy for two to three months, he'll join Glavine next season on the list. 8. As of this writing, the Detroit Lions have yet to win a foot

  December 25, 2008

• Remember Dickie Thon? Well, You Should.

  August 5, 2008

• Clemens Investigated by Grand Jury

  I was really looking forward to writing a post today. I was going to write about the wacky greatness of Rickey Henderson - I hope Rickey gives his entire induction speech in the third person - and I was going to write about how I don't consider Jim Rice to be worthy of the Hall of Fame, not more than Andre Dawson and Dale Murphy - Rice's teammate Dwight Evans' stats were just as good as Rice's, and Evans was the far superior outfielder, but Evans got nowhere near the Hall when he was eligible.

  January 13, 2009

• Rickey, Jose, the Hall of Fame, and Me

  The string is unbroken. In the history of the Baseball Hall of Fame, no player has ever been elected unanimously. Not Babe Ruth. Not Nolan Ryan. Not Cal Ripken. Not Tony Gwynn. Not Rickey Henderson. The closest to achieving this elusive milestone was Tom Seaver who got 98.84 percent of the vote the year he was elected. Rickey Henderson came within 28 votes of that mark this year. This means that he only got about 95 percent of the vote. And I don't understand the thinking here. What

  January 14, 2009

• Third Ward Rising

  July 20, 1995

• Top 10 Moments in the History of Minute Maid Park

  Photo by Bukowsky18 The Houston Astros are asking for our suggestions for the top moments in the history of Enron Field Minute Maid Park as part of the stadium's tenth season. You know me. I love to give my opinions about the Astros. So here are my Top 10 Moments in the History of Enron Field Minute Maid Park. 10. October 4, 2001: In the top of the ninth inning of a San Francisco Giants blow-out win, Astros manager finally allows one of his pitchers to pitch to Barry Bonds. The result i

  February 26, 2009

• Top 10 Moments in the History of Minute Maid Park

  Photo by Bukowsky18 The Houston Astros are asking for our suggestions for the top moments in the history of Enron Field Minute Maid Park as part of the stadium's tenth season. You know me. I love to give my opinions about the Astros. So here are my Top 10 Moments in the History of Enron Field Minute Maid Park. 10. October 4, 2001: In the top of the ninth inning of a San Francisco Giants blow-out win, Astros manager finally allows one of his pitchers to pitch to Barry Bonds. The result i

  February 26, 2009

• Rickey, Jose, the Hall of Fame, and Me

  The string is unbroken. In the history of the Baseball Hall of Fame, no player has ever been elected unanimously. Not Babe Ruth. Not Nolan Ryan. Not Cal Ripken. Not Tony Gwynn. Not Rickey Henderson. The closest to achieving this elusive milestone was Tom Seaver who got 98.84 percent of the vote the year he was elected. Rickey Henderson came within 28 votes of that mark this year. This means that he only got about 95 percent of the vote. And I don't understand the thinking here. What

  January 14, 2009

• Clemens Investigated by Grand Jury

  I was really looking forward to writing a post today. I was going to write about the wacky greatness of Rickey Henderson - I hope Rickey gives his entire induction speech in the third person - and I was going to write about how I don't consider Jim Rice to be worthy of the Hall of Fame, not more than Andre Dawson and Dale Murphy - Rice's teammate Dwight Evans' stats were just as good as Rice's, and Evans was the far superior outfielder, but Evans got nowhere near the Hall when he was eligible.

  January 13, 2009

• The Best Houston Astros Home Grown and Acquired Rosters of All Time

  So I was fooling around on the interwebs yesterday, and between the launch of the MLB Network, the naming today of the new class for the Baseball Hall of Fame, and the coming of spring training, I was in a bit of a baseball mood. And I came across this blog detailing the All-Time Rosters for various baseball teams, including the Houston Astros. Now this guy gives two rosters, the All-Time Home Grown team and the All-Time Acquired team. I'll let you go look at his rosters, but I thought I wo

  January 12, 2009

• Top Ten Sports Moments of 2008

  10. Danica Patrick won the Indy Japan 300 to become the first woman to win a major (NASCAR, Indy, Formula One) auto race. 9. Atlanta Braves pitcher Tom Glavine won his 300th game, then retired at the end of the season, to just about cement his selection into the Baseball Hall of Fame in five years. And if Randy Johnson signs a contract and can stay healthy for two to three months, he'll join Glavine next season on the list. 8. As of this writing, the Detroit Lions have yet to win a foot

  December 25, 2008

• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Films at Discovery Green

  Clips and short films from the National Baseball Hall of Fame show Sandy Koufax, Mickey Mantle and other greats on the big screen

  May 29, 2008

• Sold Out

  At the MFAH and the HMNS, it's all about the bottom line

  August 11, 2005

• Mini Cooperstown

  Swing by the All-Star FanFest

  July 8, 2004

• Dale Murphy Is Too Damn Good For These Astros

  So I got stuck having to listen to portion of yesterday's Astros game while I was in my car, which meant that I didn't get to listen to Jim Deshaies. What I did hear, at one point, was Dave Raymond and Brett Dolan get into a conversation about Dale Murphy. Normally, this would be a good thing as I'm a huge Dale Murphy fan, but this time, they lost me when they talked about what a great fit Murphy would be in the Astros clubhouse.Which proved to me that these guys really didn't know anything abou

  June 26, 2009