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unusual facts about baseball Hall of Fame



1871 Boston Red Stockings season

From this team, Harry Wright, Al Spalding, and shortstop George Wright have all been elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1872 Boston Red Stockings season

Harry Wright, Al Spalding, and shortstop George Wright have all been elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1873 Boston Red Stockings season

Harry Wright, Al Spalding, first baseman Jim O'Rourke, and shortstop George Wright have all been elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1874 Boston Red Stockings season

Harry Wright, Al Spalding, first baseman Jim O'Rourke, catcher Deacon White, and shortstop George Wright have all been elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1875 Boston Red Stockings season

Harry Wright, Al Spalding, Jim O'Rourke, and shortstop George Wright have all been elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Al Stump

Stump spent time with Detroit Tigers' Hall Of Fame baseball player Ty Cobb in 1960 and 1961 collaborating on Cobb's autobiography.

Aldrin Justice

Ted's boss has a baseball signed (three times) by Pete Rose, and even declares that Pete Rose's absence from the Baseball Hall of Fame is a travesty, even though since his retirement from baseball, Rose has admitted to betting on the Cincinnati Reds many times when he was the team's manager.

Bill Weiss

From 1959 to 1984, he was president of a San Francisco Bay Area amateur league, the Peninsula Winter League, which helped local players, such as Baseball Hall of Famers Willie Stargell and Joe Morgan, to develop their skills.

Chuck Schilling

After playing for Boston's Triple-A Minneapolis Millers farm team in 1960, Schilling broke into the major leagues in 1961, the same year as his friend and fellow Long Islander, eventual Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski.

Claire Cribbs

He then became a teacher and coach at Warren Consolidated High School in Tiltonsville, Ohio, where he coached future baseball Hall of Famer Bill Mazeroski.

Daron Sutton

Sutton is also the son of former pitching great and Hall of Famer Don Sutton.

DeWolf Hopper

A lifelong baseball enthusiast and New York Giants fan, he first performed Ernest Thayer's then-unknown poem Casey at the Bat to the Giants and Chicago Cubs the day his friend, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Tim Keefe had his record 19-game winning streak stopped, August 14, 1888.

Ed Sadowski

He was the last Red Sox player to wear uniform #8 before it was issued in 1961 to eventual Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Carl Yastrzemski.

Frank Selee

He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999 for his managerial achievements.

Hal Breeden

He was developing himself into quite the prospect - or at least the Chicago Cubs thought so - because on November 30, 1970, he was traded straight up for future Hall of Fame pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm.

Hal Kelleher

He pitched two and a third innings, beating future Hall of Famer Dizzy Dean in the process, who left the game with a "sore arm".

Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet

Rose agreed never to work in baseball again due to an accused betting scandal while managing the Cincinnati Reds and will likely be kept out of the Hall of Fame, located in Cooperstown, New York, because of it.

In the Cards

Weyoun initially seems incredulous, so Jake concocts a "more plausible" story: he and Nog are time travel agents investigating Willie Mays' sudden appearance in the Baseball Hall of Fame...

Jeff Bagwell

Jeff Bagwell became eligible for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2011.

John Havlicek

He was a three-sport athlete at Bridgeport High School in Bridgeport, Ohio and one of his boyhood friends was Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Phil Niekro.

John M. Pattison

His is one of two "famous" interments at this cemetery, the other being the Baseball Hall of Famer Eppa Rixey (May 3, 1891 - February 28, 1963).

Ken Raffensberger

Louis Cardinals Hall of Famer Stan Musial said on an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show that Raffensberger was the toughest left-handed pitcher he had ever faced and dubbed him "Crafty Raffy."

Larry Himes

Maddux's departure is regarded as one of the Cubs' franchise's worst moves, on par with the trading of future Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Lou Brock to the St. Louis Cardinals for sore-armed pitcher Ernie Broglio.

Miller Pontius

Pontius was also a standout baseball player at Michigan, where he played for coach Branch Rickey and alongside pitcher George Sisler—both of whom were later inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Missouri Route 13

In 2006 the portion through Caldwell County, Missouri was named the Zack Wheat Memorial Highway in honor of the Baseball Hall of Fame player.

MLB Front Office Manager

MLB Front Office Manager allows a player to take the role of a baseball general manager over the course of a thirty-year career; the goal is to perform well enough to become inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Mule Suttles

Best known for his power hitting, Suttles was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006.

She Ain't Got...

The video features guest star Major League Baseball players Orlando Hudson and Matt Kemp of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Baseball Hall of Fame member Dave Winfield.

South End Grounds

On September 12, 1911, 44-year-old legend Cy Young pitched the final home game of his career in a Boston uniform at the grounds against the New York Giants and fellow future Baseball Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson.

St. Louis Maroons / Indianapolis Hoosiers

Baseball Hall of Fame member Amos Rusie made his big league debut with the 1889 Hoosiers.

Stanley S. Harris

Born in Washington, D.C., Harris was the son of Hall of Fame manager Bucky Harris of the Washington Senators.

Stephen Larkin

Stephen Karari Larkin (born July 24, 1973 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a former Major League Baseball player and the brother of Barry Larkin, a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, as well as Byron Larkin who was an All-American basketball player at Xavier University.

Superior Tours

On July 28, 2007, a fleet of 11 Superior buses transported 550 people to Cooperstown to see the induction ceremony of Cal Ripken, Jr. into the Baseball Hall of Fame, and was among several Baltimore-area bus companies that offered this service.

Ted Lyons

Besides his 1955 election into the Baseball Hall of Fame, in 1981 Lawrence Ritter and Donald Honig included Lyons in their book The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time

Texas State Highway 288

From the Harris-Brazoria County Line to Freeport, it is referred to as the Nolan Ryan Expressway, in recognition of Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan who grew up in Alvin, Texas, which is not directly on this road.

Vada Pinson

He was a graduate of Oakland's famed McClymonds High School, attended by Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Frank Robinson (a Pinson teammate in the major leagues for nine years) and Basketball Hall of Fame center Bill Russell.

Wabishaw Wiley

Wiley, who caught Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Cyclone Joe Williams, was considered one of the best catchers of his era.

Wes Ferrell

Although he, unlike his brother, has not been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, in 1981, Lawrence Ritter and Donald Honig included him in their book The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time, in celebration of his being not just a star pitcher but the best-hitting pitcher of all time—noting that Babe Ruth did most of his hitting when he was no longer a regular pitcher.

Wild Bill Hagy

Hagy's last known O-R-I-O-L-E-S cheer was performed at Ripken's Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cooperstown, New York.

William Walsingham, Jr.

When Breadon parted company with his longtime general manager, Hall of Famer Branch Rickey, at the close of the 1942 campaign, Walsingham became the club's chief of baseball operations, although the GM title was not formally assigned to him.

Yosh Kawano

Former Cubs player and enshrined member of the Baseball Hall of Fame Ryne Sandberg has suggested that if the Cubs were ever to change the name of Wrigley Field, that the ballpark should be named Yosh Kawano Field.


see also

Albert Chandler

Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler, Sr. (1898–1991), member of the Baseball Hall of Fame and American politician

Bert Sugar

In May 2009 he and Running Press published Bert Sugar's Baseball Hall of Fame: A Living History of America's Greatest Game.

Dave Trembley

He was inducted into the Lancaster JetHawks Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008, Antelope Valley College Sports Hall of Fame in 2009, and the Florida State League Hall of Fame in 2012.

Effa

Effa Manley, American sports executive, first woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame

Gilmore, Ohio

Gilmore is the birthplace of legendary baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young, for whom the Cy Young Award was named.

Joseph Morgan

Joe Morgan (born 1943), Baseball Hall of Fame second baseman

Marie Mahoney

In addition, Casey Candaele, former Houston Astros infielder and son of AAGPBL star Helen Callaghan, introduced her for induction into the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006.

Ross Newhan

He garnered the 1997 Associated Press Sports Editors Award for his story on the sale of the Dodgers and was given the 2000 J. G. Taylor Spink Award by the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Scott S. Harris

Harris is the grandson of Baseball Hall of Fame manager Bucky Harris of the Washington Senators.

Tacoma Rainiers

Alex Rodriguez also played for the team in their first year as the Rainiers in 1995, before becoming a superstar, as did baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Juan Marichal.

Xen C. Scott

Scott recruited Joe Sewell to Alabama and then sent him to the Cleveland Indians when Sewell's football days were over; Joe Sewell went to the Baseball Hall of Fame.