January 07, 2003
Did Baseball Bloggers Scoop Big Media on the Hall of Fame? Um...nope. InstaPundit maven Glenn Reynolds today linked to this supposed scoop by the impressively exhaustive Mike's Baseball Rants, uncovering an encrypted Associated Press file featuring Gary Carter's career stats, taking this to mean that the AP had advance word of Carter's election and was readying the info for the announcement. However, I was able to locate similar files for all-time saves leader Lee Smith, who fell about 160 votes short and Ryne Sandberg, who also missed. I'm guessing that similar pages are up somewhere for other Hall hopefuls like Blyleven and Rice, not to mention their well-polished Bob hope obituary.
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