Santo for Hall

I had heard on the radio that Ron Santo wasn’t at the Cubs game due to health issues, but didn’t catch more than that as I was following the game during travel to various stores while running errands in town.
So I did a bit of searching and here’s what I found….
Source: Ron Santo update […]

Ron Santo has hung up on the Hall of Fame and disconnected. After missing out again Wednesday in voting by his peers, the former Cubs third baseman will turn his attention elsewhere. I’m not going to worry about it anymore,” Santo said. Where I am today isn’t because I’m in the Hall of Fame […]

This past weekend I went to the 2005 Hall of Fame induction ceremony to see Ryne Sandberg inducted into baseball’s most prestigious club. I came on the Jay Buckley baseball tour with my dad and two good friends.
We were able to see the Hall of Fame, Ryno inducted and played baseball among rabid Cub […]

In my last post I said that I would talk more about my time in Cooperstown with Ronnie Woo-Woo. I took a 4 day bus ride out there with Ronnie and was thoroughly annoyed by his antics and incessant “woo-ing.”
So rather than going into great detail, I’ll just go with a story on the […]

Last year, in an ESPN.com chat session, I was asked which players not in the Hall of Fame were most worthy of induction. I threw out about six names, but other than Bert Blyleven and Ron Santo, I don’t feel strongly about anyone.
Later this week, Michael Wolverton will make the case for Bert Blyleven, so […]

You may recall the initial reaction when the Hall of Fame Veterans Committee was reconstituted to include all the living Hall of Famers. These voters were going to let admissions standards slip, and pretty much everybody who was a pal of a Hall of Famer and had worn spikes was going to be enshrined in […]

The Chicago Cubs today announced that they will retire the uniform number — #10 — worn by longtime Cubs third baseman / broadcaster Ron Santo. The special pregame ceremony will take place prior to the Cubs’ Sunday, September 28 (2003), affair against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Wrigley Field.
Santo will become the third player to be […]

“Our boy didn’t make it,” Jim Dantona said.
I phoned Jim, the world’s biggest Ron Santo fan, at his office in Simi Valley, Calif., a short while after leaving the disconsolate ex-Cub’s home here Wednesday morning.
Dantona already knew the news. The mighty Santo had struck out.
“I don’t care what the veterans committee says,” was Dantona’s indignant […]