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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – Bobby Doerr has held many distinctions in his lifetime. He has been called “Red Sox all-time hits leader” (a record he held at the time of his retirement), as well as an “All-Star.”
Hall of Fame teammate Ted Williams called him “the silent captain of the Red Sox”.
Doerr is also the oldest living player enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame. And 75 years ago – on April 20, 1937, the 25th anniversary of the opening of Fenway Park – Doerr made his major league debut and began a career that ended in Cooperstown.
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – Phil Scanlan was attending Harvard University in 1975 when he attended a World Series game at Fenway Park featuring the Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds.
But not just any World Series game. The Australia native happened to be at Game 6 – the legendary contest won by a Carlton Fisk home run in the 12th inning and the game many credit for re-awakening America's love affair with the game.
"I was in left field," Scanlan said. "Here's the (foul pole, about four feet away). And the ball goes flying over my head, and hamburgers start flying all over the place."
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – Shortly after sunrise on a cold November Saturday morning in Cooperstown, Raul Ibanez reached down to high-five his 11-year-old son, Raul Jr., upon learning of his history-making Friday night.
Though the 2011 major league season had concluded a week earlier, Ibanez was all smiles in learning that he had just become the first major league player in history – active or retired – to spend the night in the famed Plaque Gallery at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
"RJ, we are a part of history," father Raul explained to son.
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – Tom Kotchman has spent 35 years in the minor leagues as a player, coach and scout. His son Casey made his major league debut at age 21 and has spent 8 seasons in the big leagues – hitting .306 for the Tampa Bay Rays in 2011.
Together, they are an impressive combination of baseball history.
Fresh of his playoff run with the Rays and his father's 33rd year as a manager, the pair made the ultimate road trip to the home of baseball and visited the Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Rod Carew's big league career included the normal ups and downs -- even for a future Hall of Famer -- that come with the game of baseball.
But it was the personal battles that Carew overcame that defined his character and courage.
On Friday, Carew shared those courageous stories with patients at the Syracuse VA Medical Center and students at Syracuse's Henninger High School as part of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum's Character and Courage Weekend.
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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – Former Braves manager Bobby Cox may be retired from baseball, but he certainly isn't out of the game.
"I see the guys all the time. I talk to Fredi [Gonzalez] and Roger [McDowell] daily," he said referring to the Braves manager and pitching coach. "I get my baseball fix that way."
It has often been said that it's like a baseball card collection coming to life when one attends an event at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. But former big leaguer Dmitri Young added a twist to this on Monday.
A day after Young, a father of three, had a Father's Day to remember when he not only captured the Legends Hitting Contest crown but also the first Bob Feller Player of the Game Award at the third annual Hall of Fame Classic, he enthralled a capacity crowd inside the Hall of Fame's Bullpen Theater with stories from his long career in the game.
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – The distance between Zeist, Netherlands and Cooperstown, N.Y. is about 3,600 miles, an amazing journey that finds Bert Blyleven still trying to comprehend.
For the Dutch-born Blyleven, a pitcher elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Jan. 5 on his 14th try on the Baseball Writers' Association of America ballot, Tuesday was his third trip to Cooperstown but his first since he joined the game's most exclusive fraternity.
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – Roberto Alomar was born into a world of baseball.
On Tuesday, Alomar made his first pilgrimage to the home of baseball – and for Alomar, it felt like he was coming home.
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