Our Hall of Pretty Damn Good Players is a space for all of those great players from history who, for whatever reason, won’t make their sport’s official Hall of Fame. That can be because the player was underrated or exceled in an aspect of the game that wouldn’t be fully appreciated until years later. But […]
This is the Hall of Pretty Damn Good Players — an imaginary sports museum devoted solely to the unsung and underrated. The players honored here probably won’t make their sports’ Halls of Fame, but they made an important mark on their games nonetheless. That was certainly true of today’s subject, longtime Atlanta Braves center fielder […]
This is the Hall of Pretty Damn Good Players, our weekly opportunity to pay respect to talented athletes who deserve better legacies. So far in this space, I’ve usually highlighted players with modest conventional numbers that belied their true contributions. But this week, let’s change it up a bit. I want to talk about a […]
With everyone self-isolating inside and the sports world on indefinite hold, many fans are turning to alternative sources of sports-adjacent entertainment — video games, TikTok, marble racing, etc. — to keep the flame burning. My personal outlet has been to watch a ton of classic games on YouTube, an alternate universe where the greatest teams […]
That Derek Jeter did not become baseball’s second unanimous selection to the Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday, a year after its first such selection, was something of a surprise. Jeter’s failure to receive 100 percent of votes — he appeared on 396 of 397 Baseball Writers’ Association of America ballots — offers a reminder […]