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Mazel tov to Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines, and Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez on their election to the Baseball Hall of Fame. That’s the good news. The (relatively) bad news is that they played for teams in markets that don’t necessarily lend themselves to glamor and glitz. Bagwell spent his entire 15-year career with the Houston Astros. […]
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After his interview with the veteran writer, Graham Womack at Baseball: Past and Present wonders if there isn’t some way for the Hall of Fame to recognize Creamer’s his contributions. What a great idea. There are several worthy scribes who didn’t work for newspapers (and therefore don’t qualify for the Spink Award, which “or meritorious […]
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As I mentioned in a previous entry, look for new bios about Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven to come out before the inductions (I wouldn’t be surprised if manuscripts are in prep already). I was wondering: out of all the personnel — players, executives, managers, etc. — enshrined to the Hall of Fame, how many […]
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Henderson became the latest first-ballot Hall of Famer this year. What a day May 1, 1991 was: Henderson becomes the all-time stlen base cham, and Nolan Ryan tosses his seventh and final no-hiter. Henderson took some criticism because of his “I-am-the-greatest” boast, while Ryan quietly accepted the accolades for his accomplishment. You just know a […]
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The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will recognize the twin traditions of baseball and film when it hosts a the third annual Baseball Film Festival in Cooperstown, Sept. 19-21. The event kicks off with a salute to the 20th anniversary of the release of Bull Durham, featuring appearances at the Museum by the […]
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From Onlyinhouston.org. There are players — such as the Astros’ perennial favorite — who have magnificent careers, do all the right things, etc., but fail to put up those lofty numbers that Hall of Famers achieve. So should he be a candidate? Where does he fit in? Jeff Kent, for example, is a former MVP […]
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From the OttawaCitizen.com: Longtime baseball writer and former Ottawa Citizen staff writer Bob Elliott is a nominee for induction into the writers’ wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2009. According to the London Free Press, ”Elliott is one of three writers nominated for the J.G. Taylor Spink Award and induction into the writers’ […]
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This article from the Miami Herald heralds the Baseball Reliquary, a California-based organization “that trumpets itself as a ‘traveling museum of baseball curiosities and wonderments.”
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ESPN.com uses this language for its headline of the Associated Press story on the Petroskey resignation: HOF president resigns amid ‘fiduciary’ questions The reader will note the quote marks around fiduciary. The Hall did not detail Petroskey’s actions. Spokesman Brad Horn said the executive committee believed they weren’t criminal and that he did not benefit […]
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Former Pirate second baseman Bill Mazeroski is elected by the Veterans’ Committee into the Hall of Fame along. His walk-off home run in the 1960 World Series is still ranked as one of the most dramatic moments in the game. (Thanks to NationalPastime.com.) The Amazon Report: Twin Killing: The Bill Mazeroski Story
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From Sportscollectorsdaily.com, a brief but fervent recommendation of photographer Terry Heffernan’s new project featuring items from the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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If you can’t come to the Hall of Fame, let the Hall of Fame come to you. That’s the philosophy behind the traveling exhibit, Baseball As America, which features lots of memorabilia culled from the Cooperstown institution which gets a run at the National Convention Center in Philadelphia through May 11 I attended the collection […]
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John Helyar, author Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball, one of my favorite books on the business aspects of the national pastime, weighed in on the “outduction” of Marvin Miller in the latest Hall of Fame elections for executives, umpires, and managers. In a Page2 column on ESPN.com, Helyar wrote: The longtime […]
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In my most recent "day job," I was the sports and features editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper, where I hosted another blog. Busy, busy, busy.
I did a profile piece on the award-winning cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.
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