Remembering Al Lopez, Tampa’s Latin Jackie Robinson
July 12, 2013 by David Alfonso · 3 Comments
Recently the family home of Al Lopez was uprooted and moved a short distance. In about a year it will open as the Tampa Baseball Hall of Fame. It is obviously appropriate the baseball history of Tampa would be housed in the Lopez home, and in Ybor City, a neighborhood just east of downtown Tampa, […]
Marvin Miller Again Denied Hall of Fame Induction
December 6, 2010 by Seamheads · Leave a Comment
From the MLBPA: New York, NY, Monday, December 06, 2010 … The following statement was issued today by Major League Baseball Players Association founding Executive Director Marvin Miller regarding the Hall of Fame Expansion Era Committee election results. “The Baseball Hall of Fame’s vote (or non-vote) of December 5, hardly qualifies as a news story. […]
Cape League Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
November 24, 2010 by Judy Johnson · 1 Comment
Cape Cod Baseball League Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Chatham Bars Inn Saturday, November 20, 2010 __________________ “You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.” – Jim Bouton Part I. The Cape Cod Baseball League […]
Unfortunately, I Was Right
July 30, 2010 by Gabriel Schechter · 1 Comment
In 2004, long-time Bay Area sports announcer Lon Simmons won the Ford Frick Award presented annually at the Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cooperstown. From that moment, Jon Miller, who idolized Simmons since childhood from listening to him broadcast Giants games, began referring to Simmons as a “Hall of Fame announcer.” Miller, I was […]
