NEXT VETERANS HALL BALLOT OF 10 WILL BE ANNOUNCED SEPTEMBER, 2010 ELECTION ANNOUNCED-DEC. 2010 FOR 2011 INDUCTION. SEE BOOKMARKS FOR WHO/WHERE TO WRITE AS COOPERSTOWN AWAITS GIL.
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**1-PLAYER'S ABILITY **2-SPORTSMANSHIP **3-INTEGRITY
****4-CHARACTER***5-CONTRIBUTION TO TEAM PLAYED WITH -------SURELY GIL QUALIFIES!!!!!!!!
HELP CORRECT THIS GLARING INJUSTICE;AND GET GIL THE HONOR HE RICHLY DESERVES--LET ALL 64 VET COMMITTEE MEMBERS KNOW YOU SUPPORT GIL FOR INDUCTION ON JULY ,2011!!!!!!!!!! LET'S WAKE UP THE HALL--THEY PASSED OVER BUCK O'NEIL IN 2006 WHEN 17 WERE ELECTED FROM NEGRO LEAGUES BUT BUCK INTRODUCED THEM AND SAID IN HIS SPEECH IN COOPERSTOWN ON JULY 30,2006--LAST WORDS-NATURALLY I'M DISAPPOINTED, BUT THERE ARE OTHERS,LIKE GIL HODGES AND JOE CARTER, WHO SHOULD BE IN THE HALL OF FAME AND AREN'T.---WOULD BE FITTING FOR GIL TO BE NAMED FIRST BUCK O'NEIL LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD---HALL COULD DO THIS--WRITE JOE MORGAN AT THE HALL OF FAME--
*****GIL HODGES BELONGS IN COOPERSTOWN NOW*****
http://www.washtimesherald.com/local/local_story_128185903.html THIS IS LINK TO ARTICLE ABOUT GIL'S MURAL IN INDIANA--HIS HOME TOWN HAS NOT FORGOTTEN OUR
Ira, according to an article written in December 2008, the address is GTS Vineyards, Box 888, Calistoga, Calif. 94515 JoeP. ________________________________