Although the Big Rude (one of Olerud’s nicknames) only got 0.7% of the Hall of Fame ballot in 2011, he was still inducted into the National College Baseball Hall of Fame in 2007. Anyway, thanks for reading this post. I hope you enjoyed it and check back in a few days for more of “all the buzz on what wuzz.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hey baseball fans! The team that represented the American League in my favorite World Series (1993: Toronto Blue Jays vs. Philadelphia Phillies) was filled to the brim with All Stars like Joe Carter and Jack Morris and Hall of Famers like Rickey Henderson and Paul Molitor. However, perhaps the most important player on the team that season was the AL batting champion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[21083,21081,104,95,738,21225,2703,6677,871,1931,2113,14808,21080,628,191,2889,2011,466,834,21084,913,2286,21082,124],"class_list":["post-27439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-1993-toronto-blue-jays","tag-al-batting-champion","tag-base-percentage","tag-baseball-fans","tag-baseball-hall-of-fame","tag-baseball-history","tag-blue-jays","tag-college-baseball","tag-first-baseman","tag-hall-of-famers","tag-jack-morris","tag-joe-carter","tag-john-olerud","tag-lifetime-batting-average","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mvp","tag-paul-molitor","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-rickey-henderson","tag-rude-one","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-washington-state-university","tag-world-series"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t
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