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"Rock" belongs in Cooperstown

By Jeff Pearlman
Special to Page 2

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Tim Raines will not be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. I say this because I know a large number of voters -- many of whom adhere to a strict, in-depth, complicated scientific equation of Pythagorean inanity when it comes to determining Cooperstown worthiness. That's right -- inanity. It happened to Keith Hernandez. It happened to Jim Rice. It happened to Ron Santo. For some reason, players more than worthy of enshrinement are picked apart like chicken carcasses at my mother-in-law's hou ...

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