Archive for the 'Baseball' Category

For the record

Monday, June 1st, 2009

In case anyone missed the baseball game between the Longhorns and Boston College on Saturday,  don’t worry it’s understandable,  it went a record breaking 25 innings and lasted 7 hours and 3 minutes.  Texas and BC would go on to combine for NCAA records with 42 strikeouts,  192 plate appearances,  171 at-bats,  69 assists,  222 [...]

Complete 2009 MLB Hall of Fame ballot

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

On January 12, 2009,  the Baseball Writers Association will announce the new class of inductees in to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame.  This years ballot is the smallest in history with only 23 names, 10 first timers and 13 returning all trying to be voted into the sacred Hall of Heroes.  Voters are [...]

The 2009 MLB Hall of Fame

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

On December 1, 2008, the Hall of Fame ballot was released and leading the way is baseball’s all-time stolen base leader, Rickey Henderson.  While being primarily known as a base stealer, it was Henderson’s high on-base percentage, power and ability to score runs that made him perhaps the greatest leadoff hitter in the history of [...]