The Baseball Writers' Association of America on Thursday permanently stripped Dan Le Batard of his Hall of Fame vote for handing his ballot to Deadspin as a prank designed to mock the voting process. In a statement, the writers' association said that
Dan Le Batard, the Hall of Fame voter who gave his ballot to the website Deadspin, was given a lifetime ban Thursday from voting for Cooperstown by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Le Batard, who works for ESPN and the Miami Herald, also
The BBWAA has brought down its hammer. ESPN's Dan Le Batard has been banned from voting for the Baseball Hall of Fame and will have his BBWAA membership suspended for one year, after submitting the 10 candidatesÂ
Yesterday Deadspin revealed that Dan LeBatard of ESPN and the Miami Herald was the voter who turned his ballot over to Deadspin readers and cast it pursuant to their collective vote. He didn't accept any money for it but, ever since Deadspin revealed
Here's some on-air ESPN-on-ESPN violence, with Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon giving us their thoughts about their colleague Dan Le Batard's decision to turn his baseball Hall of Fame vote over to Deadspin.