Here is Why Pete Rose Should Be in the Hall of Fame
As another year of MLB Hall of Fame voting passes, 2022 marks one of the more significant years for voters in recent memory. This was the final year on the ballot for two of the more polarizing players in MLB history: Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens. To nobody’s surprise, neither player reached the minimum 75% […]
Book Review: Cooperstown Hall of Fame Players
Ever wanted a picturesque book complete with large full page stories and statistics of all of the great ballplayers enshrined in Cooperstown (through 2005)? Well, look no more because Cooperstown: Hall of Fame Players is as good as it gets. This coffee table sized work has magnificent pictures and in depth stories about every player […]
A Case for the Creation of Baseball in Pittsfield, MA from 1791
There seems to be a case for the origins of the game of baseball hailing from the Bay State (Massachusetts) rather than Cooperstown, NY, home of Doubleday Field and The Baseball Hall of Fame. So was baseball created in Cooperstown, NY by Mr. Doubleday, (as per the book “Live All You Can” as mentioned in […]
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE ROSES
So once again Cooperstown, New York played host to thousands of baseball fans that flooded into the small rural town in upstate NY. On Sunday, June the 26th, two more legends of the game took their spots among their peers. Jim Rice finally received what many of his team mates and fellow hall of famers […]
