The Baseball Hall of Fame

Someone wrote in to Sarah Bunting's "The Vine" to complain about the recent Baseball Hall of Fame vote that excluded Mark McGuire from the Hall. In particular, the writer objects to all the articles now being written by vote-eligible sportswriters bragging of their integrity in voting against McGuire's inclusion.

I started to compose the remainder of this entry as a comment, but it got long enough that I decided to ( post it here instead. )