It won’t happen this year, with two, three, maybe even four players getting elected to the Hall of Fame today.

However, last year, the New York Times served up a memorable sports front when no players earned a trip to Cooperstown. A not so subtle commentary on the steroid era by the Times.

Said then sports editor Joseph Sexton: “(We) felt like history had spoken. How to convey that to our readers? I think we did it — a striking, profound emptiness.”