A surprisingly busy holiday Monday has provided a full helping of news, but today is, of course, the conclusion of a decade of disappointment and renewed hope. We will learn this afternoon if Edgar Martinez has been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Despite the building tension, I must admit it’s felt a bit hard to fully throw myself into tracking the voting this year, but as it stands, the odds are excellent for Edgar’s induction. To help get you in the mood, and educated, here are some heavily Edgar-tinged links!
- If you were in attendance for Edgar’s number retirement ceremony, you saw this heartstring-tugging homage to Edgar.