Topic: Cooperstown

2011 Hall of Fame vote an international affair

NEW YORK (Reuters) - This year's Baseball Hall of Fame vote took on a distinctly international tone with the election of Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven, who tried on their Cooperstown jerseys at a news conference on Thursday.Alomar, who played for seven ...
-For a lifelong baseball fan like me, visiting this little town on the edge of Otsego Lake in upstate New York for the first time is like a political junkie's first-ever trip to Washington, D.C. . It turns out, of course, that ...

Red Sox to retire jersey of Hall of Famer Rice

BOSTON (Reuters) - Jim Rice will add another honor to his name on Tuesday when the new member of the Hall of Fame has his No. 14 uniform retired by the Boston Red Sox.Rice, inducted with Rickey Henderson at Sunday's Cooperstown ceremonies, ...

Hall of Fame should admit drug users, author says

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Baseball's National Hall of Fame should embrace the standout steroid cheats of the modern day since they would be at home among the rogues and heroes already honored in Cooperstown.So says Zev Chafets, author of the new book ...
Rickey Henderson, Jim Rice proud to be Cooperstown classmatesFinally in the Hall of Fame, Jim Rice wants nothing to do with the debate over whether Mark McGwire, Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds belong, too. "With that, the Boston Red Sox slugger leaned ...
Hall of Famers and major league alums will play in new baseball Hall of Fame Classic in 2009Baseball's legends and old-timers will play in a new Hall of Fame Classic, a creation deemed insufficient by the group opposed to the elimination of ...
Barry Bonds' Batting Helmets, Hand Marked With #755 and #756 on Bills, En Route to CooperstownBarry Bonds' batting helmets, hand marked with #755 and #756 on the bills, arrived in New York on Thursday en route to Cooperstown.The helmet Bonds wore when ...