Playing all but one game of his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Babe Adams was one of the best control Pitchers of his day.

Adams played in one game for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1906, and his contract was traded to the Pirates shortly after.  1909 was the year he struck, and in that year's World Series, he was their shining star, winning three Games and posting a 1.33 ERA and a 0.889 WHIP.   

Over the next few years, Adams was a high-end starter for the Pirates, leading the NL in WHIP in 1911 and 1914 and going 20-for-20 in saves in both 1911 and 1913.  Sadly for Adams, shoulder trouble led to a subpar 1916 season, and he spent 1917 in the minors and most of 1918 on the sidelines.  It looked like it was over for Adams, but he got healthy, and had there been a Comeback Player of the Year Award, he likely would have won it (although the players coming back from World War I might have had something to say about that). 

From 1919 to 1921, he led the National League in WHIP, and from '19 to '22, he was the first-place finisher in BB/9 and SO/BB.  Adams would also lead the NL in FIP four times in his career.  

His play fell off by 1924, but he was in his 40s by this time.  Adams did play in the 1925 World Series, and although he did not play much, he was a member of that championship team, making him the only player who was on both Pittsburgh's 1909 and 1925 World Series Titles.  His last season was 1926, and he retired with a record of 194-139 and a WHIP of 1.090.

We are going way back for this one, as the career of Tommy Bond began in 1874, when he became the first Irish-born baseball player to be a professional.

Bond had a low sidearm delivery, which was technically considered underhand and was legal at the time.  Bond predated the National League, as he debuted for the Brooklyn Atlantics of the National Association, and was with the Hartford Dark Blues when they migrated to the then-infant National League in 1876.  He joined the Boston Red Caps (now the Atlanta Braves) in 1877, and it was there that he had the best run of his career.  It was in Massachusetts that he had three straight 40 Win seasons (Bond led the NL in that stat in 1877 and 1878) and would also win the ERA Title in 1877 and 1879.  While he was not considered a flamethrower by today’s standards, he won the Strikeout Title in 1877 and 1878, thus making him the recipient of baseball’s Triple Crown in ’77.  

After throwing over 2,000 Innings from 1877 to 1880, Bond suffered from arm fatigue, and the subsequent change of the pitcher's mound from 45 to 50 feet also did him no favors.  He was out of baseball shortly after, but there should be no doubt that Bond was among the best hurlers in the game at one point, and one of the first great ones.

As of this writing, Bond is second all-time in BB/9 (0.479) and in SO/BB (5.026).

Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team.  That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity.  As such, we are very happy to present our pre-2021 revision of our top 50 Miami Dolphins of all-time.

As for all of our top 50 players in football we look at the following: 

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the NFL. 

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

4.  Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.

This is our first revision after our inaugural unveiling, only one new entry.

As always, we present our top five here.

1. Dan Marino

2. Jason Taylor

3. Zach Thomas

4. Bob Griese

5. Jim Langer

You can find the entire list here.

Cornerback, Xavien Howard, is the lone debut, coming in at #49.

We welcome your input and comments and as always, we thank you for your support.

When you do long lists, it takes you a long time to do revisions.

Recently, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced the belated Class of 2021, which was originally intended to be announced last December.  This means that we had some work to do at Notinhalloffame.com, and this involved three components:

Remove those who were chosen.  This means that Kraftwerk, Jay-Z, Foo Fighters, Todd Rundgren, Gil Scott-Heron, Tina Turner, The Go-Go’s, Carole King, LL Cool J and Billy Preston.

Add those who are now eligible for the next class.

Alter those ranked based on your comments and votes.

Seems simple enough, right?

Let’s move on!

Our entire list can be found here, but we would like to present our new top ten.

Eminem is his first year of eligibility, and he takes over the number one spot.  There should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that he will enter on his first year of eligibility.

Oasis moves up from #4 to #2.  While there should not be any dispute of their Hall of Fame credentials, the British rockers would not likely attend the ceremony…especially with each other.

Jethro Tull climbs back to #3, which equals their highest previous rank.  Despite being eligible since the 1993 vote, the progressive rock group have never been nominated.

The Smiths go to #4, which is also their highest ranking.  The have been nominated twice before, 2015 & 2016.

At #5, Gram Parsons cracks the top five for the first time.  Parsons has been nominated three times before, but the last was way back in 2005.

MC5 inched up one rank to #6, which matches their highest previous rank.

Judas Priest, who was nominated in 2018 and 2020, achieve their highest rank yet with #7, two higher than last year.

Willie Nelson moves up from #10 to #8.

Iron Maiden cracks the top ten for the first time at #9.  They also received their first nomination last year.

New Order returns to the top ten, edging up one spot.

There are other new additions to our list:

Nickelback (#98), Spoon (#130), The Hives (#199), Fiona Apple (#232), Matchbox Twenty (#256), Fatboy Slim(#283), Shakira (#295), The Spice Girls (#353), Mogwai (#433), Staind (#444), Placebo (#503), and Doves (#561).

Eventually (and we know we said this many times) we will expand this list to an even 1,000.  We will get there, we promise!

You know what we want you to do!

Cast your votes, and give us your opinions.

As always, we thank you for your support.