The baseball Hall of Fame is the orthodox Catholic Church of halls of fame.
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The highlight is a private evening touring the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
However, Jack Morris has accumulated multiple statistics that have deterred his entry into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Former Cincinnati Reds shortstop Barry Larkin was the lone candidate elected Monday for the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
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"It would be unprecedented, " said Brad Horn, a spokesman for the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
Imagine carrying the burden and privilege to vote former professional baseball players into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame.
But Carl Bauer, who commented on the National Baseball Hall of Fame's Facebook page, said the voters got it right.
In July, the National Baseball Hall of Fame restructured its procedures regarding the consideration of managers, umpires, executives and long-retired players.
However, his candidacy for the Baseball Hall of Fame was hampered by injuries and an honest assessment of his offensive achievements.
Former Yankee pitching great Rich "Goose" Gossage will be formally inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame this weekend in Cooperstown, N.
While it is well documented that the Baseball Hall of Fame is hardly populated with choir boys and altar servers, the B.
He was enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.
The Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 2013 is officially vacant.
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Congratulations to Pat Gillick , the longtime baseball executive who was just elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Expansion Era Committee.
Out of the 20 managers that are currently enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame, Lou Piniella has more career victories than 10 of them.
On the horizon, the baseball writers fully know that their jobs as the moral compass for the Baseball Hall of Fame will get progressively harder.
He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2003.
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Only 46 pitchers in baseball history have won 250 or more games and 33 of them have a plaque hanging in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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And yet, somehow, they found time this week to debate things like whether or not we should mint coins to celebrate the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Although he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1956, his statistics, owing to his war-shortened career, are not as impressive as they might otherwise be.
In 1939, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, New York, on the 100th anniversary of the day Abner Doubleday supposedly invented the sport.
In almost a whisper, Boras went on the record to say that excluding Marvin Miller from the Baseball Hall of Fame is like taking Da Vinci out of the Louvre.
The Monday morning announcement that Pat Gillick had been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the 16 member Veterans Committee analyzing the Expansion Era was met with mixed emotions.
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Several years ago, my very good friend and fellow Upstate New York resident, Curt Smith, wrote a Time Life book commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Baseball Hall of Fame in nearby Cooperstown.
Besides becoming the 297th member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, Larkin is also the 48th ball player to enter the Hall of Fame after playing his entire career with one ball club.
If anyone has ever visited the Baseball Hall of Fame, one of the unique charms about a visit to Cooperstown is walking along Main Street and shopping in the quaint baseball-themed boutiques and stores.
The recently filed tax return for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum became public knowledge a few days ago and it provided readers with the sobering realities of debt and low attendance.
Since the inaugural class of Ruth (95.1%), Cobb (98.2%), Mathewson (90.7%), Johnson (83.6%) and Wagner (95.1%) of 1936, only 39 men have been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on the first ballot.
Even though he was a five-time all-star and one of the most memorable big game pitchers in recent memory, the voters have had a difficult time inducting him into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
"Those empowered to help the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum document the history of the game failed to recognize the contributions of several Hall of Fame-worthy players, " players' union chief Michael Weiner said.
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