Bill Mazeroski finally got his long-awaited Hall call. Hard to tell whether Maz really was Coop material or not. Yes, he had the Mother Of All One Shining Moments when he took the Damn Yankees over the wall to end the 1960 Series. Except for one ill-fated Ralph Terry grooveball, Maz wasn't much of a lumberjack. But hey, good for him and good for Pirate fans.
Helps take their minds off their current nine.
The Orlando Sentinel hiring an outside expert to analyze Dale Earnhardt's autopsy photos. Perhaps it's only fitting that Albert Belle's stormy baseball career ended in March, the In Like A Lion, Out Like A Lamb month. A painfully arthritic hip forced Belle to step down with all the Cooperstown numbers he'd ever need but almost no chance of getting a plaque seeing as how he pissed off every baseball media scribe he could find and then some. Sorry, Albert, but your 15 minutes are up. Of course, there is a certain poetry to The Rick coaching the Cardinals given his successful stint with the hated cross-state rival Jellies.