COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - Roberto Alomar stared at the adoring crowd and was nearly rendered speechless, the tawdry episode of his stellar career long since forgotten. Bert Blyleven was more composed but moved nonetheless as he stared at his 85-year-old mother and reminisced about his late father. Both men were inducted on Sunday into the Baseball Hall of Fame along with front-office guru Pat Gillick.
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - With Puerto Rican flags waving in the breeze and many of his countrymen cheering in appreciation, Roberto Alomar was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday. Speaking first in his native Spanish, the third Puerto Rican player to be enshrined, along with Orlando Cepeda and Roberto Clemente, said he felt proud to be a Puerto Rican.
NEW YORK - Barry Larkin has been elected to baseball's Hall of Fame. The former Cincinnati Reds shortstop received 495 votes (86 percent) in balloting announced Monday by the Baseball Writers' Association of America, well above the necessary 75 percent. Larkin was on the ballot for the third time after falling 75 votes short last year.
DALLAS - Ron Santo always kept rooting for the causes dearest to him - for his Chicago Cubs to win the World Series, for doctors to find a cure for diabetes and for him to reach the Hall of Fame. On Monday, Cooperstown finally came calling.
Barry Larkin plans to play golf in Florida this morning. Then he'll return to his home in the Orlando, Fla., area and await the most prized telephone call in baseball. He is the leading candidate to gain election to the Hall of Fame when voting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America is announced.
NEW YORK - After a narrow miss last year, Bert Blyleven wasn't shy in saying voters finally got it right by sending him into the Hall of Fame along with Roberto Alomar. And he didn't shy away from talking about baseball's dark past - the Steroids Era.
Eleven men representing virtually all levels of baseball in the state and beyond will be inducted into the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame during ceremonies scheduled for July 31 at the Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland. Chad White of Bangor, Ellsworth native Dick Scott, Greg Reed of Lincoln and posthumous selections Jim Dyer of Presque Isle and Kenneth Libbey of Mattawamkeag are among members of the Class of 2011.
NEW YORK - Barry Larkin plans to play golf in Florida on Monday morning. Then he'll return to his home in the Orlando area and await the most prized telephone call in baseball. He is the leading candidate to gain election to the Hall of Fame when voting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America is announced.
Baseball and America have grown up together," noted Jane Forbes Clark, chairman of the board of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. "In fact, the game is such an integral part of our culture that we often take for granted its deep day-to-day significance in our lives. In bringing this exhibition to people across the country, it is our hope that we can learn more about ourselves as a people with shared values, as reflected in our national game. "Baseball is such an integral part of popular culture," said Christian Overland, vice president of museums and collections, The Henry Ford. "It is only fitting that Henry Ford Museum, an institution that celebrates American ideas and innovations, is a venue for this extraordinary exhibition honoring our national sport." Weaving Myths:...
A week ago, we began introducing our Inside Baseball Hall of Fame inductees. Today, we bring you the rest of the immortals. A reminder on the parameters:
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