The Buck O'Neil Lifetime Achievement Award will honor an individual whose extraordinary efforts enhanced baseball's positive impact on society, has broadened...
Glad Jim got in , now some more comparisons to GIL as homers and RBI are similar to JIM but Rice had .300 lifetime average----I am glad for Jim but would be...
I have been quietly monitoring the site for many months, hoping that everything would eventually work out as it should have. I now see that more help is needed...
The 64 living voters could not elect anyone for the 4th time even though ballot was reduced to 10 from 20-25. The "older" vet committee with only 12 voters (a...
I had to shut the press conference off. One of Joe Gordon's "credentials" is playing catch with Larry Doby, according to an "esteemed"; black female baseball...
REMEMBER BALLOTS ARE OUT AND FINAL RESULTS ANNOUNCED ON DECEMBER 8th-- so PLEASE KEEP PRAYING FOR GIL HODGES HE DESERVES IT COOPERSTOWN NEEDS GIL HODGES...
That's a beautiful logo. Has anyone put it on a t-shirt? I'd buy a few for Christmas presents to spread the word that we need to be more pro- active this time....
THE VET COMMITTEE CHANGED THE RULES THIS YEAR FOR THE 2009 INDUCTEES--- THERE IS PRE AND POST WWII--ELECTION---I BELIEVE THE PRE BALLOT IS FINALIZED WITH THE...
CARL ERSKINE VISITS BROOKLYN CYCLONES PARK ON 8/17. I WILL BE THERE TO GET OISK BOBBLEHEAD & HEAR HIM PLAY NATIONAL ANTHEM ON HIS HARMONICA AND DO SOME SIGNING...
Send your opinions in as Steve Hart will be interested on this 50th ANNIV. --1958---of OMalley taking our Brooklyn Bums away--By the way George Shuba will be...
Someone once asked me what I thought about Pete Rose and his exclusion from the HOF. I replied that I didn't care much, one way or another, about Rose but do...
Guys, My name is Stephen Hart and I'm a sportswriter for the Staten island Advance daily newspaper in NYC. I've also been a longtime member of this group --...
Guys, My name is Stephen Hart and I'm a sportswriter for the Staten island Advance daily newspaper in NYC. I've also been a longtime member of this group --...
The Vet format changed again---now only 63 living baseball Hall of Famers (players) vote not the 84 previously which included broadcasters and execs. On...
I will be interviewed on the Mike Silva radio show on Sunday 6/15 about Gil's chances to get in Hall in 2009. The show is on the internet and recorded so you...
VERY MOVING ARTICLE I was browsing the internet, and ran across this moving piece. It is the author's thoughts on what Joan Hodges would say to the fans on ...
YES IT IS TRUE WALTER O'MALLEY WAS ELECTED TO BASEBALL HALL OF FAME-- HE MAY HAVE BEEN A PIONEER BUT HE STOLE OUR HEART AND SOLE TAKING OUR BUMS TO LA. AND...
2007 MARKED 50 YEARS SINCE O'MALLEY TOOK OUR BUMS WEST -NOW DODGERTOWN ENDS ON ST PATTY'S DAY IN 2008. I WENT TO A DODGER DREAM CAMP IN FEB- 1990 AND WAS IN...
MANAGERS/UMPIRES--COMMITTEE OF 16 TO CAST BALLOTS--DECEMBER 2007 HELD EVERY OTHER YEAR PLAYERS BALLOT---SEVERAL CUTDOWNS --JULY,2008 20-25 CHOSEN; FINAL BALLOT...
Even though Joe Morgan said "this is not necessariyl trying to right a wrong" that is exactly what THE HALL OF FAME DID by creating the well deserved Buck...
Press Releases MLB Official Info 09/05/2007 4:30 PM ET Mets honor lengendary manager Gil Hodges at Shea this Friday night, Sept. 7 when the Mets host the...
Please inform me where and to whom I can write in support of Gil to the Hall of Fame. He was one of my childhood heroes and I had the fortune of meeting him...
WITH NO INDUCTEES VIA VET COMMITTEE FOR 3 STRAIGHT TIMES-6 YEARS--A NEW PROCEDURE WAS PASSED AND ANNOUNCED BY TOP COOPERSTOWN PERSON-JANE FORBES CLARK. 63...
I ATTENDED DON NEWCOMBE DAY AT KEYSPAN PARK IN CONEY ISLAND -BROOKLYN ON SUNDAY 7-22. OUR PARTY OF 4 ALL RECEIVED NEWK BOBBLEHEADS. THE GAME WAS WON BY THE...
I heard on ESPN (Baseball Tonight or Sportscenter) that Gil Hodges holds the record for "Sacrifice Flies in a Season" with 19 set in 1954. Someone has a chance...
