The Great One and The Lucky One: Baseball’s Hall of Fame adds two players

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Yesterday, the Baseball Writers Association of America inducted two players into Baseball’s Hall of Fame. Our friend and one-man-tailgate-party, Jeff Beresford Howe, is here to tell us about Rickey Henderson, who might be called The Great One, and Jim Rice, who maybe, you’d call The Lucky One.

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