Goold: The sin of being second best to the best ever:
By Derrick Goold
dgoold@post-dispatch.com
314-340-8285, stltoday.com
ST. LOUIS • Back in 2010, Johnny Bench, the greatest catcher of them all, sat on an exclusive, 16-person “expansion era” committee to consider candidates for the National Baseball Hall of Fame who had been overlooked or never conside…
Ted Simmons, Alan Trammell, and, of course, Tim Raines — why aren’t they in the Hall of Fame yet? Because of who they weren’t, not who they are...
Published on January 21, 2014 11:23