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San Diego Chicken deserves call to Hall

By Gene Wojciechowski
ESPN.com

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

My nominee for the National Baseball Hall of Fame has webbed feet and a beak that makes Nomar Garciaparra's schnoz look like a button nose. But the guy keeps putting up Cooperstown-worthy numbers. He has 35 years in the game, has never missed a single one of his 20,000-plus starts and has never clucked about getting sent to the minors. He's a pro's pro. George W. invited him to the White House. Ted Turner supposedly tried to trade an Atlanta Braves catcher for him and later attempted to money-w ...

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