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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.
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – Pat Gillick spent his professional career evaluating baseball talent, and his skill at the job took him all the way to Cooperstown.
So when Gillick toured the Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday in preparation for his July 24 induction, his scouting instincts took over.
"There's a lot of guys here with high leg kicks," said Gillick while looking at artifacts from Sandy Koufax and other Hall of Fame pitchers. "You just don't see that any more."
United States President Barack Obama awarded Hall of Famer Stan Musial the Presidential Medal of Freedom – the nation's highest civilian honor – on Feb. 15.
Musial received the award at a White House ceremony along with other new medal winners including former President George H.W. Bush, NBA Hall of Famer Bill Russell, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, poet Maya Angelou and Wall Street investor Warren Buffet.
During the ceremony, Obama said the recipients represent "the best of who we are and who we aspire to be."
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This Day in Baseball History
On February 4, 1976, a federal judge upholds a recent decision by arbitrator Peter Seitz, who had granted free agency to pitchers Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally. Both players had challenged baseball’s reserve clause. Messersmith will sign a free agent contract with the Atlanta Braves, while McNally will decide to retire.