A few months back, after the 2025 Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame inductees were announced, I began to ponder why Dwight Gooden was not a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. I wrote an appreciative fan, stat packed blog … Continue reading The Dwight Gooden Baseball Hall Of Fame Idea Is Gaining Momentum
This past January, the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY announced that three new members will be inducted in the Summer of 2025. The three members (Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia, Billy Wagner) were voted into the Hall of … Continue reading Baseball Book Review – Sandy Koufax, A Lefty’s Legacy by Jane Leavy
Here is a bold and honest statement from a long time Boston Red Sox fan, Don Mattingly should be in Cooperstown’s National Baseball Hall of Fame. There you heard it. I have been telling friends, co-workers, the stranger I sat next to … Continue reading Don Mattingly Should Be In The National Baseball Hall of Fame
On the first floor of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY there is a large room with hundreds of plaques mounted to the walls. On each plaque is a singular, outstanding individual whose contribution to the game … Continue reading The RIBBE Takes A Road Trip To Cooperstown, NY – Part 6, The Plaque Room
As I was photographing and cataloguing Rhode Island references in the National Baseball Hall of Fame, I could not help but stop at just about every single exhibit to read up on the then and now of baseball. The Baseball … Continue reading The RIBBE Takes A Road Trip To Cooperstown, NY – Part 5, The Then And Now Of Baseball
Have you ever stood just outside the main gate of any park, restaurant, graduation ceremony and just knew in your heart that just on the other side of that gate, that door, that entryway – something incredible was about to … Continue reading The RIBBE Takes A Road Trip To Cooperstown, NY – Part 4, The Rhode Island Connection
After a great hotel breakfast (the hotel had an automatic pancake machine!) and a large cup of coffee, I took a one mile stroll down Route 28 to the outside of the Cooperstown Dreams Park to catch a morning view … Continue reading The RIBBE Takes A Road Trip To Cooperstown, NY – Part 3, The Gate Was Open
We arrived at Doubleday Field, Cooperstown just after 5:00pm to find the gates locked. From the main gate next to the bleachers behind home plate, I could see parts of the field and listened as water flowed under the first … Continue reading The RIBBE Takes A Road Trip To Cooperstown, NY – Part 2, The Night Life
As a preface to this blog and those upcoming, I just want to say what a thrill it was to visit one of the most incredible villages in the entire United States of America. To write just one story, to … Continue reading The RIBBE Takes A Road Trip To Cooperstown, NY – Part 1, The Detour
Baseball statistical sites such as Baseball Reference (www.baseballreference.com) track the coolest baseball stats you can think of. Who won the MVP in 1967? How many errors did Ty Cobb make his rookie season? Batting titles, home run titles, World Series … Continue reading A Baseball Player from Woonsocket, RI Makes The Major Leagues
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