COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - Bert Blyleven knows what took him to where he's been and where he's headed - his heritage. I'm Dutch, I'm stubborn. I think it's the stubbornness, the consistency. You take the good with the bad," said the 60-year-old Blyleven, the first player born in the Netherlands to earn Major League Baseball's highest honor, election to the Baseball Hall of Fame. "I came up at a young age. I retired at an old age. I was one of only three pitchers to win a game before their 20th (birthday) and after their 40th. It's just loving a game that you felt that you could compete at the highest level.
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - Andre Dawson stared almost in awe as he watched a brief video biography of his playing career, brushing away tears as familiar faces spoke in admiration of the intense man most still call "Hawk. When I think back, there are so many things that flash through my mind," Dawson said. "How did I ever pull it off? I can only say, 'Wow!'"
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - Bert Blyleven knows what took him to where he's been and where he's headed - his heritage. I'm Dutch, I'm stubborn. I think it's the stubbornness, the consistency. You take the good with the bad," said the 60-year-old Blyleven, the first player born in the Netherlands to earn Major League Baseball's highest honor, election to the Baseball Hall of Fame. "I came up at a young age. I retired at an old age. I was one of only three pitchers to win a game before their 20th (birthday) and after their 40th. It's just loving a game that you felt that you could compete at the highest level.
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.
By nightfall, many of you will have had all the football you can stand. Allow me, therefore, to depart from tradition by offering a few words about the greatest sport of all. For years, it was believed baseball was created by Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, N.Y. This is still accepted by some fans, including, rather incredibly, Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig. "I really believe that Abner Doubleday is the 'Father of Baseball,' Selig wrote in October to an autograph expert named Ron Keurajian. Keurajian reacted by saying that Selig probably leaves cookies out for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve.
He won nine games before he turned 20. He won eight games after he turned 40. What Bert Blyleven did in between is what makes him a Hall of Famer.
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - You have time to think while on the road to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. And you will be on the road, because there is no airport in Cooperstown. This means driving. You think of the game's legends who have regularly visited the small (population 2,200) upstate New York village.
Baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., promotes itself as the place fans go for an escape from the often ugly realities of the game. But as veteran journalist and novelist Zev Chafets proves in "Cooperstown Confidential," the reality is that the Hall of Fame (HOF) is more like a repository of everything baseball would like to forget. One year, he attended the HOF induction ceremony only to encounter, among the former players, "a convicted drug dealer, a reformed cokehead who narrowly beat a lifetime suspension from baseball, a celebrated sex addict, an Elders of Zion conspiracy nut, a pitcher who wrote a book about how he cheated his way into the Hall, a well-known and highly arrested drunk driver, and a couple of nasty bean ball artists. They had been washed clean by the magical...
I was thinking: The general consensus on the knotty Barry Bonds verdict (guilty only on obstruction of justice) is that his candidacy for the Hall of Fame is more muddled than ever.
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