The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame.

The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.

It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.

It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.

It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.

I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.

Certainly toward the end of the season, you and I could be in a ballpark and they might say the crowd is 30,000, and we could look around and see that there was no more than 10,000.