With his retirement now as a player and manager complete, Lou Pinella will wait for a call from Cooperstown as one of this generation's most successful managers having won 1,835 games with five major league clubs.
A World Series-winning manager with the Cincinnati Reds in 1990, Pinella won six divisional championships in 23 seasons including a record 116 games versus just 46 losses with a Seattle team that included future Hall of Famers Alex Rodriguez and Randy Johnson in 2001.
The former 1969 Rookie of the Year and the first Kansas City Royal to see a major league pitch, Pinella managed one All-Star game (1991) while being ...
Congratulations to Andre Dawson on his razor thin selection to the baseball Hall of Fame.
After years of being on the ballot, Dawson finally found himself as the biggest name available outside of Mark McGwire, and the writers graciously punched his ticket for a trip to Cooperstown this summer.
But is this the best way to select baseball immortality?
Dawson received just 14 percent of the vote in his second year of eligibility and the prospects of Hall of Fame admission seemed slim.
But like Jim Rice last year, Andre Dawson has been able to hang around for more than a decade because baseball writers refuse to up the ...
