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...same day Kuhn cancelled the Blue deal, the Committee on Veterans elected Larry MacPhail and pitcher Adrian Joss to the Hall of Fame. Both will be inducted posthumously into the hallowed shrine at Cooperstown...
...three will be enshrined in the hallowed corridors of Cooperstown on August 8 along with Ernie Banks, who was elected in the regular poll of sportswriters...
There's one titan from that bygone heyday, however, who's still waiting for his hallowed berth in Cooperstown. His name is William Ellsworth Hoy and, in spite of a career that spanned three decades and 14 seasons, the baseball sages on the committee have allowed another year to pass without inducting...
...rookie season, Hoy led the league with 82 stolen bases and finished with 594 thefts by the time he retired after the 1902 season. That many stolen bases is enough in itself to entitle him to a posthumous spot in Cooperstown, as only Ty Cobb, Eddie Collins, Max Carey and Honus Wagner swiped more during Hoy's lifetime...
...familiar landmarks and vistas hopelessly cramps the cartographer's art (see map). Planning a family vacation is a matter of infinite negotiations as the head of the household attempts to accommodate everyone's tastes and whims. Naturally he whims some, loses some, in an effort to schedule the Cooperstown baseball shrine, an art gallery, an antique market and a genuine prehistoric dinosaur park and rock garden all in one fractious, febrile day. Still, it might be instructive to conjure Dickens, Trollope and Twain on the road in '76, launched in their camper in the northeastern corner...