In 2009, Alex Rodriguez admitted in an interview with Peter Gammons of ESPN that he took performance enhancing drugs from 2001 to 2003.
After that news broke, I wrote a post in which I tried to argue that despite the allegations, he should at least be considered for induction into the Hall of Fame. The
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Ichiro and the Hall of Fame, as Understood Through the Baseball Almanac
Baseball is a game of statistics. Everyday guys like me keep a scorecard at the stadium and the game's box-score is worth a peak in the next day's newspaper. ESPN and others keep track of statistics in basketball, hockey, and football, but the meaning and weight given to the numbers in those sports don't rival