Dusty Baker is scratching his head about why Barry Bonds just isn’t within the Baseball Hall of Fame. Baker, who managed Bonds on the San Francisco Giants from 1993 via 2002, spoke to Monte Poole of NBC Sports Bay Area on Monday about the juxtaposition of how David Ortiz acquired inducted in his first 12 […]
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Alex Rodriguez and gal pal Kathryne Padgett loved the celebrations in Cooperstown over the weekend. Taking to her Instagram Tales on Sunday, the Dallas-based health competitor, 25, gave followers a peek at the Baseball Hall of Fame festivities in upstate New York, the place Rodriguez was available for the induction of his pal, Red Sox […]
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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Tom Seaver’s daughter, Sarah Seaver Zaske, was amongst those that made the journey to characterize the Mets for Gil Hodges’ long-awaited induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday. “Cooperstown always has been a special place for my family. Dad always used to love coming here. I know he appreciated how […]
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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — With seven new members within the Class of 2022, there was a lot emotional launch emanating from the stage and from the throngs of followers and members of the family in attendance at this 12 months’s induction ceremony for the Baseball Hall of Fame. There have been 1000’s of Boston- and Dominican-based […]
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The chapter of Roger Kahn’s seminal baseball masterpiece “The Boys of Summer” dedicated to Gil Hodges is titled merely, and appropriately: “One Who Stayed in Brooklyn.” Lengthy after the Dodgers had totally deserted the borough, even lengthy after most aggrieved Dodgers followers had moved on, Hodges and his household stayed. That stretch of Bedford Avenue, […]
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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Irene Hodges has been engaged on her speech — and even sleeping with it, she jokes — since January, weeks after her household finally bought the decision they’ve been ready on for greater than 5 many years. Irene’s father, Gil Hodges, the longtime Brooklyn Dodgers nice and the supervisor of the Mets’ […]
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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Jim Kaat pitched in almost 900 video games over 25 seasons within the huge leagues, the bulk of them as a starter. Kaat, a 283-game winner who shall be inducted into the Hall of Fame on Sunday, additionally made 43 reduction appearances and one begin for the Yankees in elements of two […]
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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — A contingent of former Yankees got here out in force for Mariano Rivera’s and Derek Jeter’s Hall of Fame enshrinements in latest years. Not surprisingly, the viewers at Clark Sports activities Heart will be crammed Sunday with former Red Sox teammates of 2022 inductee David Ortiz. Pedro Martinez, a member of the […]
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Gil Hodges’ family has waited 50 years since his death in 1972 for the earlier Dodgers star first baseman and Mets supervisor to (*50*) have baseball’s last honor — enshrinement inside the Hall of Fame — bestowed upon him. Members of his Mets’ family moreover could be making the trek upstate to Cooperstown for the […]
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There was one second close to the top of the great Keith Hernandez celebration last weekend that hit me greater than the rest — and all however definitely hit anybody of my technology, which is to say, those that got here to like and embrace New York baseball within the Nineteen Eighties. That second was […]
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