#What to expect in baseball’s next Hall of Fame votes without the usual villains

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“#What to expect in baseball’s next Hall of Fame votes without the usual villains” Sign up here to get Beyond the Back Page delivered to your inbox each weekday morning. The dust hasn’t even begun to settle on Tuesday’s outrage-inducing voting results for the Baseball Hall of Fame, but let’s take a stab at predicting the…

#A condensed oral history of the 2006 NLCS and a Mets team that came so damn close

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“#A condensed oral history of the 2006 NLCS and a Mets team that came so damn close” I conversed with prominent members of that Mets team who shared memories, salutes and regrets from the build-up to the NLCS, its seven games of drama and the aftermath. If you liked the article, do not forget to…

#David Wright remembers Mets’ Shannon Forde five years after passing

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“#David Wright remembers Mets’ Shannon Forde five years after passing” Man, does time fly. Five years have passed since Shannon Forde, longtime media-relations official for the Mets, died after a long battle with breast cancer in March 2016 Maybe the time flies in this instance, because we haven’t forgotten Shannon one iota. “For me at…

#Rob Manfred has shot to be MLB’s most consequential commissioner

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“#Rob Manfred has shot to be MLB’s most consequential commissioner” It was a hundred years ago this month that the 16 men who’d watched their sport, baseball, teeter on the brink of criminal extinction decided to create the commissioner’s office and hire a man named Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis. From the start, Landis’ life had…