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	Baseball Hall of Fame
		Among baseball fans, "Hall of Fame" means not only the museum and facility in Cooperstown, but also the pantheon of players, managers, umpires and builders who have been named to enshrinement there.
		An ongoing controversy facing the Hall of Fame is that of the status of Joe Jackson and Pete Rose.
		Members of the Hall of Fame (by year of election) The Hall of Fame was dedicated on June 12, 1939 by the Clark Foundation, a private fortune based in Cooperstown that traces its money to the original Singer Sewing Machine Company.
	www.information-and-answers.com /resource-Baseball_Hall_of_Fame.html

	Fame
		Baseball Hall of Fame The baseball in North America, the display of baseball-related artifacts and exhibits, and the hon...
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		Fame Fame is the condition of being known to the general public.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/fame.html

	Men's Varsity O Hall Of Fame
		He was also captain of the 1944 team, leading OSU to a 10-2 Big Ten record and the conference championship.
		Gradishar won Academic All-America honors in 1973, the Big Ten Medal of Honor in 1974 and is a member of the GTE Academic All-America Hall of Fame.
		The two-time all-Big Ten and All-American posted a 24-3 record in two years with the Buckeyes.
	ohiostatebuckeyes.collegesports.com /genrel/osu-mhof.html

	Georgia All-Americans :: Sixty-one in 90 years
		Smith later coached ends and baseball for the University of Georgia, the University of South Carolina, and the University of Mississippi.
		He was inducted in to the National College Football Hall of Fame in 1954, the State of Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1964, and the UGA Circle of Honor in 1996.
		McWhorter was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954, the State of Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1964, and the UGA Circle of Honor in 1996.
	georgiadogs.collegesports.com /sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/051702aaa.html

	Prince Hal finally crowned
		He has never walked into the gallery that contains nothing but the chiseled plaques of baseball's most honored players along the walls.
		In 1962, the first year he was eligible for the Hall of Fame, Newhouser received four votes.
		In 1975, the final year he was on the writers' ballot, he received 155 votes; 272 were needed for induction that year.
	www.freep.com /sports/othersports/qvince9h.htm

	Category:Baseball Hall of Fame balloting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This page was last modified 04:50, 11 June 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Baseball_Hall_of_Fame_balloting

	Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association
		Baseball has lost many important contributors over the past 12 months, including two Hall of Famers, two current-day Major League players, and several Hall of Fame caliber writers and broadcasters.
		He also worked extensively with the baseball program in Clarence, helping construct several playing fields at Clarence City Lake during the 1960s.
		Wilhelm was elected to the Hall in 1985.
	www.mlb.com /mlb/features/alumni/remember.html

	National Baseball Hall of Fame - 2002 Necrology - The Game Lost Many in 2002
		According to longtime Cleveland writer Russ Schneider, the famed photograph was "considered a landmark in what was then only the second year of the integration of baseball." Gromek retired in 1957, leaving the game with a record of 123-108 and an ERA of 3.41.
		According to the rules of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Kile's passing in July made him eligible for the 2003 ballot considered by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
		In 1997, he attended the opening of the Hall of Fame's new exhibit on African Americans in baseball, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's major league debut.
	www.baseballhalloffame.org /history/necrology/2002.htm

	STaF Yankees { Hall of Fame Inside Pitch }
		Hall of Fame manager Sparky Anderson was born on February 22, 1934, in Bridgewater, South Dakota, but grew up in California, where the warm weather fueled his love of baseball.
		Terry was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1954.
		The exhibition's appearance at the Smithsonian is part of a four-year, 10-city, nationwide tour, marking the first time treasures from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum have ever left their legendary home.
	yankees.stafathletics.com /insidepitch_archive.htm

	Addict Baseball and Football Forum - Hodges, Oliva, Santo headline Veterans ballot
		Candidates were selected by a committee selected by the Baseball Writers' Association of America and second screening committee of six Hall of Fame members.
		The Veterans Committee is comprised of the 60 living members of the Hall of Fame, 14 Ford C. Frick Award recipients, 10 J.G. Taylor Spink Award recipients, and one former Veterans Committee member whose term has not yet expired.
		Eighty-five people are eligible to vote, including the 60 living Hall of Famers, 10 members of the writers wing and 14 members of the broadcasters wing.
	www.addictsports.com /baseball/printthread.php?t=45814

	Rich's Weekend Baseball BEAT: December 2004 Archives
		I find it amusing how some Hall voters feel they’re the “keepers of the gate” and believe it is their duty to keep out the riff-raff — or at least not let certain players in until they’ve waited the “proper” number of years.
		McKeon walks by, exchanges pleasantries with the Hall of Fame manager (with a lifetime pitching record of 0-4 and a 6.48 ERA, he wasn’t voted in as a player, right?), and proceeds to exit the hotel to light up another one.
		TR : There are players in the Hall of Fame I didn’t vote for or, if I had been voting at the time, wouldn’t have voted for — and I don’t feel compelled to use their comparisons in assessing a candidate’s worth.
	www.all-baseball.com /richbeat/archives/2004_12.html

	OOTP Developments Forums - SO49: 1954 Hall of Fame Ballot
		All-Star in 1944, 1947 with the Tigers; 1950 with the Dodgers
		- Inside the Park Baseball Patch 1.03 released, DEMO now available!
		Since the seasonal balloting is always an iffy thing - sometimes I get 100% returns, sometimes not...I have decided to expand the SO49's HOF Balloting to the Dynasty forum.
	www.ootpdevelopments.com /board/showthread.php?t=36944

	BTF's Hall of Merit
		You have to persistently push your case to the people running the Hall, to the voters, to the media, to MLB and to the ball clubs.
		One of the aims of the HoM project is to be able to show them who ought to be in their Hall.
		To get a long-retired player into the Coop is like supporting a candidate for canonization to the Catholic Church; it takes many years and you have to prove miracles were performed.
	www.baseballthinkfactory.org /files/primer/hom/P30

	hofinducteesbios.html
		In baseball, he was a starting third baseman for Ralph Lapointe (one of the original UVM Athletic Hall of Fame inductees in 1969) for two seasons.
		Professional baseball and Bert Wood Abbey were born in the same year, 1869.
		Along with Hall of Famer Kirk McCaskill and current baseball coach Bill Currier, Farrell was one of the offensive leaders that led the Catamounts to the championship game of the 1981 ECAC New England Regionals.
	www.uvm.edu /athletics/hof/hofinducteesbios.html

	athletic
		He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976 and received the Varsity Alumni "S" Club's Jack Breslin Lifetime Achievement Award in 1988.
		An assistant wrestling coach at MSU from 1951-60, Mikles was described by legendary MSU coach Fendley Collins as having "the speed of a sprinter, the agility and suppleness of a dancer, and the athletic poise of a champion."
		Smith was named to the all-time MSU football team in 1969 and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1988.
	www.msu.edu /unit/msuaa/magazine/w93/athletic.htm

	SABR-L Archive Index
		LOG9603B LOG9603C Bunning/Tiant/Hall of Fame LOG9603C Bunting as a strategy LOG9907B Bunting LOG9907B Bunt LOG9707A Burials LOG9901C Burleigh Grimes Museum LOG9709D Burns and SABR Critics LOG9608C Burns' Artistic Standards LOG9512D Burns' Baseball LOG9512D Burns Blunders Bristle Baseball Brahmins.
		LOG9604D Attendance figures for Halls of Fame LOG9701A attendance increase LOG0002D Attendance LOG0002A Attendance LOG0005E Attendance records LOG0002D Attendance Records LOG0002E Attendance terminology and classification LOG9610A Attendance trends LOG9910B Attention Ohio State University Baseball Fans LOG9808B At the Bat Museum LOG9703E At the Hall LOG9612D AT&T interchange LOG9511B Auburn Doubledays LOG9702D Auburn Doubledays?
		LOG0006B abrams LOG9606C Abstract Index LOG9712A AB vs. hits LOG9906C AB vs. PA LOG9906D Accessibility of Cooperstown LOG0002C Accidents and Insurance LOG9703B Accidents LOG9703A Accomodations, Hall of Fame Weekend LOG9707B A.
	www.pacificnet.net /~sroney/SABR-L/indexCum.html

	1998 SABR-L Subject Index
		LOG9807B This is the Golden Age of Baseball Talent LOG9810E Those darn 1968 Red Sox LOG9806A Those Zany Dodgers LOG9806A Thoughts From a Non Fan LOG9803C Thoughts on Connie Mack LOG9805D Three-finger brown...
		LOG9811C ISU Baseball Conference LOG9812B It ain't cheatin' if you don't get caught LOG9803B I've Got a Secret LOG9807C I win, you lose...
		LOG9812A Danny Murtaugh LOG9802C Danny Murtaugh LOG9807E Danny Murtaugh LOG9808A Danny Murtaugh reply LOG9808A Darell Evans and Hall of Fame LOG9801A dark blue in San Diego...
	www.pacificnet.net /~sroney/SABR-L/index98.html

	1944 St. Louis Browns Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com
		Statistics may come from our work, the Baseball Databank, or other sources including SABR.org.
		You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Teams > Baltimore Orioles > 1944 Statistics / Schedule and Splits / Transactions
	www.baseball-reference.com /teams/SLB/1944.shtml (200 words)

	World Series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In baseball, the World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball in North America, played in October after the end of the regular season between the pennant winner of the American League and the pennant winner of the National League.
		This was the first World Series to feature two teams that had finished the previous season in last place.
		The World Series has been a best-of-seven series except in the years 1903, 1919, 1920 and 1921, when it was best-of-nine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_Series (200 words)

	Al Michaels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alan Richard Michaels (born November 12, 1944 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American television sportscaster.
		Since then, he has covered a wide variety of sports for the network, including Major League Baseball, college football, ice hockey, track and field events, figure skating, and many events of the Olympic Games.
		In 1971, Michaels moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he became the lead announcer for the Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball.
	www.newlenox.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Al_Michaels (610 words)

	Sixteen Elected To Inaugural Class Of Army Sports Hall Of Fame :: Heisman Trophy Winners, All-Americans, Legendary Coaches Comprise Coveted Charter Class
		In addition to his accomplishments on the soccer field, Palone served as Army's baseball coach from 1955 to 1957.
		He also assisted in coaching football, baseball and boxing at that time before assuming duties as head football coach at the University of Tennessee in 1925.
		Selected "Outstanding Player of the Year" by the Helms Foundation in 1944 and 1945, Davis was also selected "Outstanding Player of the Year" by the Maxwell Club in 1944.
	goarmysports.collegesports.com /genrel/081704aal.html (610 words)

	Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society's Official Website and Online Shoppe
		The proposal to commemorate Connie Mack’s 50 years as a Major League manager originated with Ed Pollock, the baseball columnist of “The Evening Bulletin.” Pollock was with the Athletics during their 1944 spring training stay in Frederick, Maryland—wartime travel restrictions prohibited the A’s from taking their customary trip to Florida for pre-season conditioning.
		During the afternoon of Friday, 4 August 1944, Connie Mack and assembled guests gathered at the Warwick Hotel for a 5 PM dinner and to watch Mack cut a three-layer cake baked for the occasion.
		As a culmination to the ceremony, Connie Mack named his all-time, all-star team of living players, each one exiting the dugout and lining up next to the microphone near home plate when introduced.
	philadelphiaathletics.org /history/macktribute.htm (1478 words)

	Washington College Hall of Fame
		It was on the baseball diamond as an outfielder that Bill attained his greatest success, leading the 1935 team to twelve wins, one loss and one tie, and the Maryland Collegiate League Championship.
		After graduating in 1936, Bill began what was to become a 17-year career in professional baseball, playing for the Chicago Cubs until 1948 and with the Philadelphia Phillies through 1953.
		Failing health at the height of his career forced Bill to leave baseball, and he retired to life on his farm near Chestertown.
	athletics.washcoll.edu /halloffame/1981/wn36.html (1478 words)

	Baseball Digest: 7th inning stretch: "The Treatment" - intentional walks given by pitchers when the bases are loaded
		Bill Nicholson, July 23, 1944 (2nd game)--The Giants led the Cubs, 10-7, in the top of the eighth with the bases loaded, none out, and Nicholson--who had homered four times already that day--at the plate.
		Baseball Digest: 7th inning stretch: "The Treatment" - intentional walks given by pitchers when the bases are loaded
		AS A TEENAGER IN 1944, EVERETT "ACE" Parker--now a retired New York City cop living in Napa, California--was at the Polo Grounds when Bill Nicholson was intentionally walked with the bases loaded.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FCI/is_11_62/ai_108721608 (1478 words)

	Baseball Direct - #1 online source for baseball videos, books & calendars
		Every game in the Series was a dramatic story all its own-- Branca's brilliant performance suddenly shattered, Reynolds' blowout, Berra's historic pinchhit homer, Lavagetto's hit to break up Beven's no-hitter, Gionfriddo's catch, and the heroics of Page and Henrich.
		Also see "1947 World Series (and 1947 All-Star Game)" in the Rare Films section.
		Series MVP Jose Rijo defeated the A's twice, and Eric Davis, Billy Hatcher and Chris Sabo (two homers in Game 3) also played key roles in Cincinnati's four-game sweep.
	www.baseballdirect.com /world2.html (1478 words)

	Sports timeline
		1941 in sports - Ted Williams is the last batter in Major League Baseball to hit over.400
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		1994 in sports - World Series cancelled after player strike; Roland Ratzenberger dies during qualifying for the San Marino Grand Prix at the Villeneuve corner and Ayrton Senna dies at the Tamburello corner during the race.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Sports-timeline.htm (2145 words)

	Baseball Art: Baseball Lithographs, Sports Posters, Sports Prints
		Browse the baseball art in this sports art gallery, or use the following bookmarks to go directly to another sports art category.
		Baseball Art: Baseball Lithographs, Sports Posters, Sports Prints
		The ProRank Sports Art galleries offer a wide selection of baseball art, softball art, and motivational sports art at discount prices.
	www.prorank.net /xsports_art3.htm (184 words)

	1944 World Series - STL vs. SLB - Baseball-Reference.com
		1944 World Series - STL vs. SLB - Baseball-Reference.com
		You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Postseason > 1944 World Series
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	www.bb-ref.com /postseason/1944_WS.shtml (184 words)

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