ESPN.com's Jayson Stark argues Barry Larkin's candidacy for the Hall of Fame...

Barry Larkin is one of the greatest shortstops who ever lived. Period.

I'm not sure why this is a fact lost on most of the non-Ohioans on our fine planet. But it's a fact I can assure you is 100 percent true. And because it's true, you should also know this:

Barry Larkin is a Hall of Famer. An easy Hall of Famer.

That doesn't mean he'll go sailing into Cooperstown next week on the first ballot, of course.

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Check out another great argument in favor of Larkin from a few years back by Aaron Gleeman.

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