Michigan Baseball Star Barry Larkin elected to Hall of Fame
Congratulations to Michigan great Barry Larkin on being elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame!
Larkin, who spent his entire 19-year career with the Cincinnati Reds, was the lone player inducted into the Hall of Fame on his third year of the ballot. Larkin received 86% of the vote of the Baseball Writers' Association of America, eclipsing the 75% needed for induction.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/dailypitch/post/2012/01/reds-ba…
January 9th, 2012 at 3:15 PM ^
Good guy, great player. Made UM proud!
January 9th, 2012 at 3:22 PM ^
WHIFF. It's 2 posts below man!
January 9th, 2012 at 3:34 PM ^
The first one and mine were posted like a minute apart. Just looks worse because posts were made at the same time. Thought I would leave it up to the mods to do with it because mine has a legitimate link to a story and fancy blockquote, not a link to a twitter.
January 9th, 2012 at 3:54 PM ^
But according to the posts, they were 11 minutes apart, not a minute. So don't get too indignant about it. People get "scooped" on the boards. It happens. Doesn't mean you weren't paying attention. Just means you weren't fast enough. It's a baseball thread. It'll top out at like 20 posts. No great harm done.
January 9th, 2012 at 3:23 PM ^
all inched up, which is encouraging.
January 9th, 2012 at 3:44 PM ^
Congrats Barry!
January 9th, 2012 at 4:16 PM ^
was a teammate of Hal Morris, Chris Sabo and Casey Close at Michigan. I believe he was also a heavily recruited DB.
BL was a solid to very good MLB player, but I'm not convinced he's HoF material.
Congrats to him nonetheless.
January 9th, 2012 at 4:35 PM ^
Getting 86% of the vote is pretty rare in the voting for the HOF, and plus he won a MVP on those talent-filled 90's Reds teams.
Plus he went to the greatest University in the world. That doesn't hurt.
January 9th, 2012 at 7:02 PM ^
His numbers to other shortstops in the HOF, then come back and say that.
January 9th, 2012 at 7:45 PM ^
If Ryne Sanberg is in the HOF, Larkin DEFINITELY belongs there
January 9th, 2012 at 4:25 PM ^
He's one of my favorites and not just because he went to UM! Such a classy guy and a great person!
Congrats Barry!!
January 9th, 2012 at 8:57 PM ^
congrats to yet another Meechigan alum in another HOF.