Monday, December 03, 2007
Bowie Kuhn is in the Hall of Fame? In the dictionary, sure, next to "stuffed shirt", but not in the HOF. And Walter O'Malley! Say nay! It has become popular in recent years to view O'Malley's treachery as a great act, opening up baseball to the West, but I'd say rather that he set the stage for the generations of sports franchise owners that followed, allowing them to extort hundreds of millions of dollars from communities terrified that their team might pack up and go.
O'Malley and Kuhn, two of the biggest rats in baseball, but The White Rat, Whitey Herzog, a legitimate great, a true contributor to the game, gets passed over. Not cool. Not cool at all.
