Baseball Hall of Fame

by Ken Smith

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0448172461
• ISBN13: 9780448172460
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Reaching out to the old-timers

Who knew that Connie Mack was the first introduced inductee in June 1939? Experience the train ride to Cooperstown with all those ballplayers that warm June. Smith recounts hearing Tommy Connolly, HOF umpire, say that day to Collins, Speaker & Lajoie, "I must say you fellows' language has improved a lot since I was umpiring you." Relive the opening of the Hall.Experience the frustration of how the Hall changed its election process. Did you know that when the Babe hit 3 homers in a row in the Series, the third time he actually struck out? He fussed with the ump on a quick pitch (a new rule that year), and the ump changed his mind. Then Babe knocked one into history.J.J. McGinnity was the first iron man; named so because he faced 1,658 batters in 1903. This book is stuffed full of anecdotes that warm your soul with baseball. You get to know the old timers like they were. I, for one, am buying a bunch and giving them out for Christmas.