Jan 12th 2009 8:00AM by Matt Snyder (author feed)

The results of the baseball Hall of Fame voting will be revealed Monday (2:00 PM EST), and there’s a good chance Jim Rice will finally make it. Andre Dawson almost certainly will not. While I believe Rice has a good case to be in the Hall of Fame, I am left wondering how he’s become so much more qualified than Dawson — at least by the electorate. Really, if you factor in all aspects of play, they are equally deserving of entry into Cooperstown.

Let’s take a look at the case of Rice and compare him to Dawson.Continue Reading