Jerry Hairston Jr. still remembers the day in 2001 when a 41-year-old Harold Baines collected two hits against a 24-year-old Roy Halladay. It was a July 21 game between the Orioles and Blue Jays ...

Harold Baines was a wonderful player. Full stop. He played 22 years, most of them for the White Sox and Orioles, and he hit .300 eight times, and he was always good for 20 homers and 90 RBIs and ...

The voting writers of the BBWAA, in the five years Baines was on the ballot from 2007-11, strongly disagreed, as Baines never got more than 6.1 percent of the vote, and 75 percent is needed for ...

LAS VEGAS — Harold Baines was a fine baseball player who played for a very long time — a right fielder-turned-designated hitter who earned six all-star appearances, led the American League in ...

LAS VEGAS -- The door into Cooperstown swung wide open Sunday for designated hitter Harold Baines and closer Lee Smith when they were elected into Baseball's Hall of Fame by Today’s Modern Game ...

Upon hearing Sunday night that longtime White Sox outfielder and designated hitter Harold Baines was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by a veterans committee, my first reaction was one of elation.

Edgar Martinez, a two-time batting champion who spent his entire career with the Seattle Mariners, will join Harold Baines in the six-man Class of 2019. Martinez, Mike Mussina, Roy Halladay and ...

Harold Baines was just elected by the Today’s Game committee, which is not to be confused with the Modern Baseball committee, the Golden Days committee, the Early Baseball committee, or the ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Harold Baines was given a save as big as any Lee Smith ever posted. In a vote sure to spark renewed cries of cronyism at Cooperstown, Baines surprisingly was picked for the ...

His name is Harold Baines(^), and he’s attracting more attention as an accidental baseball immortal than he ever could as a consummate professional and serial hit collector. Like Al Oliver ...