Full disclosure: I have never participated in the baseball Hall of Fame voting. I covered enough major league baseball to qualify as a voter. But the statistical hair-splitting, the head-scratching subjectivity of the so-called morals clause, the inevitable verbal broadsides no matter how the vote went — it just didn’t appeal to me.
Former A’s manager Tony La Russa is under no such compunction.
A no-doubt-about-it Hall of Famer himself, La Russa is also part of the Today’s Game Era Committee, which takes a second look at players who were dropped from the HOF ballot for a) failing to achieve election after 10 years, or b) failing to garner 5 percent of the vote.