“ When you don’t like a candidate, you say he doesn’t measure up to Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig and Rogers Hornsby. When you do like a candidate, you say he was better than Tony Perez and Luis Aparicio and Orlando Cepeda.”
— Rob Neyer raking Dan Shaughnessy over the coals for his Hall of Fame ballot discussion
Also hasn’t Shaughnessy single-handedly sucked more “joy out of our national pastime” than anyone else?
