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Baseball's Hall of Fame exists mostly in the minds of sportswriters. But their official choices for immortality are also listed on bronze plaques in Cooperstown, N.Y., known as the birthplace of baseball...
...Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance double-play combination was declared officially famous. Shortstop Joseph Tinker (ailing off & on in Florida), 2nd Baseman John J. Evers (bedridden with paralysis in Albany), and ist Baseman Frank Chance (dead 22 years) were finally admitted to baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. Declared white-haired Valetudinarian Evers gratefully: "That leaves me with no more worries...
Surgeon. The most surprising testimony was offered by Surgeon John H. Powers of the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, N.Y. He described an experiment in which 100 patients undergoing major operations (appendectomies, abdominal surgery, etc.) were allowed to get up and walk the day after the operation. They had only about one-third as many post-operative complications, spent less than two-thirds as much time in the hospital (average: ten days) and took only half as long for convalescence (six weeks) as a comparable group who were kept...
...these thumping accomplishments Rogers Hornsby, greatest right-handed hitter the game has ever known, was last week elected to baseball's Hall of Fame. In a little red-brick shrine at Cooperstown, N.Y., his square-jawed face, in bas-relief on a bronze plaque, will be hung alongside those of 26 other Immortals previously chosen...
...half-mast. In New York's Polo Grounds, Brooklyn's Ebbets Field and Detroit's Briggs Stadium-where New York ball clubs were playing-tier upon tier the fans stood bareheaded for a minute of silent tribute. In baseball's Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N.Y., mourners filed past a black-draped plaque. For the baseball world last week mourned 37-year-old Lou Gehrig, onetime Yankee first baseman, who Lad succumbed after two years to a rare, incurable disease known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...