Do you think Mark McGwire should be in the Hall of Fame?

[ScriptOhio]

McGwire highway to disappear?

A Missouri legislator wants to strip Mark McGwire of the highway named for the slugger after his record-breaking season eight years ago, according to the ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH.

State Rep. Talibdin El-Amin, a Democrat from St. Louis, submitted a bill Wednesday that would rename "Mark McGwire Highway" to honor former state Sen. John Bass, a veteran city politician and educator.
In 1999, the state named about five miles of Interstate 70 ? from Goodfellow Boulevard to the Mississippi River ? for the Cardinals first baseman after he hit 70 home runs, a feat that captivated fans around the state and the nation.
That was before suspicions of performance-enhancing drugs cast a shadow over McGwire's legacy. On Tuesday, baseball writers overwhelmingly decided he did not belong in the Hall of Fame on the first ballot.

Entire article: http://www.benmaller.com/mlb_rumors_notes

 

[AJHawkfan]

Although I used to love baseball, I have not followed it very closely since the labor dispute of '93 or whenever they cancelled the World Series. So, I have not chimed in on this poll yet, but I really thinkl McGwire should be included in the HOF.

Was there a rule against steroids when he was playing? Has he ever tested positive for steroids? How many NFL players are in the HOF/Pro Bowl after testing positive?

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Cincy

McGwire 'not in control' of Hall vote
Slugger says he's proud of career
ENQUIRER NEWS SERVICES
Mark McGwire had little to say about being left out of Cooperstown in his first public comments since the Hall of Fame announcement.
The former slugger talked briefly Friday to the Cal State Fullerton newspaper, the Daily Titan, about being denied baseball's highest honor in his first time on the ballot. Amid questions about his role in baseball's Steroids Era, McGwire was picked by 23.5 percent of voters in totals released Tuesday - far short of the 75 percent needed for induction.

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[Shoeless Joe]

Yes McGwire should be included in the HOF, along with Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson and many other's, however what we think and MLB thinks is 2 different ways and I am sure if MLB has there way he will not be.

 

[Best Buckeye]

Yes McGwire should be included in the HOF, along with Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson and many other's, however what we think and MLB thinks is 2 different ways and I am sure if MLB has there way he will not be.

I'm glad that MLB has some standards they hold their players to. Apparently the voters feel that way too. Otherwise why have any rules at all if anyone wo wants to can break them with impunity.

 

[ScriptOhio]

Yes McGwire should be included in the HOF, along with Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson and many other's, however what we think and MLB thinks is 2 different ways and I am sure if MLB has there way he will not be.

Shoeless Joe Jackson baseball card from 1910 sells for $492,000

A Shoeless Joe Jackson baseball card from a 1910 series called T210 Old Mill has sold at auction for $492,000.

Foster had found his father's old baseball card collection in a metal lunch pail in an unfinished room in the back of his dad's law office. Initially going through the cards, there were some Roberto Clemente and Sandy Kofax Topps cards from the '50s, but nothing that overtly stood out.

"My dad had always assumed that he lost his baseball card collection somehow when he moved in with my mom and he thought it was just gone," Foster said. "That was back in 2009. At the time, I was in high school, so we took the box home and looked at it that day. I didn't take a full inventory, I just flipped through them."

Foster straightened up the cards in the box after seeing a few were worth a couple dollars and decided that, at some point, he would take a more thorough look at what the collection held.

Over 10 years went by and after traveling home for Christmas in 2019, Foster decided it was time to take a deep dive into the collection. He and his father sat down together and went through the lot. After getting through the Topps cards, Foster noticed a large number of smaller cards at the bottom.

They were Tobacco cards from the early 1900s, and included Cy Young and Ty Cobb, among others.

"I'm not a huge baseball history buff, so I didn't realize immediately Ty Cobb was playing in 1910," Foster said. "I sent a picture to a group of friends with the Ty Cobb and Cy Young and a friend texted me back saying I should get them insured. That's when I started to do more research and found out they were the T206 cards."

Those are a rare and older set of cards that have produced a high value in recent years. A Honus Wagner T206 card sold for $1.35 million in 2019, so Foster naturally scoured the group of 585 cards for a Wagner -- but it never came up.

He took inventory by photographing each card, then took notice of similar cards that had a red border instead of the white border found on the T206 cards. Research found that these cards were produced the same year in 1910, but were images of minor league players rather than professionals.

They were T210 Old Mill cards, but didn't have an overwhelming value unless there was a Shoeless Joe Jackson card in the lot.

"I went through the stack and found 'Jackson, New Orleans,' and showed it to my dad," Foster said. "There must have been a miscommunication about the minor league thing because I asked him if this was Shoeless Joe Jackson and he said, 'No, New Orleans wouldn't have had a major league team and he wouldn't have played for them that year.' So I put it back in the stack and kept taking inventory."

Entire article: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29151803/shoeless-joe-jackson-baseball-card-1910-sells-492000

I remember seeing this baseball card find on Strange Inheritance:



https://statelinesportsnetwork.net/2019/04/08/defiances-million-black-swamp-baseball-card-find/