A baseball player whose career is best known for the time he reacted to being called out on strikes, whining about it, getting ejected, then taking his bat and destroying a dugout phone at Oriole Park at Camden Yards was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. In results announced on Tuesday night, that notorious vandal, David Ortiz, was named on 77.9% of ballots. He was the only candidate to clear the 75% threshold required for election.
Certainly it was not Ortiz’s career batting line against Brian Matusz (.138/.167/.241 in 30 plate appearances) that will get him a plaque in the museum in Cooperstown.