Source: www.nysportsday.com --- Saturday, November 25, 2017
Joe Morgan has been an honored member of the Baseball Hall of Fame since 1990. He serves as vice chairman of the Board of Directors. He knows his way around the shrine in Cooperstown and he is a little worried about its direction. Morgan sent a letter to Hall of Fame voters a day or two after they received this year’s ballots urging that they not vote for PED and steroid abusers, their statistics notwithstanding. That’s admirable but he is a little late to this party. A few years ago, the proprietors of the Hall of Fame decided that the PED abusers were not getting a fair shake from the voters. Older – and more experienced – voters were not about to forgive and forget the abusers and chose not to vote for them. This bothered the bosses of Cooperstown and their solution was to strip the ballots from that community, leaving the election to a younger population of writers who were more accepting of a little bending of the rules. Almost immediately, ballot bad boys like Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds made progress toward the 75 percent approval required for election. They probably will make even more progress this time around. This concerns Joe Morgan, who reached Cooperstown like so many honorees on pure athletic talent with no needles to help them along. And asking those players to share the glory with cheaters offended Morgan and offends many of the older writers who no longer have anything to say about it. Morgan, though, has p ...
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