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IN MEMORIAM: Howard Talbot, 89; Directed Hall Of Fame For 17 Years

IN MEMORIAM:  Howard Talbot, 89; Directed Hall Of Fame For 17 Years COOPERSTOWN – Howard Chase Talbot, Jr., retired director of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, passed away with his family by his side Saturday evening, July 18, 2015, at Bassett Hospital.   He was 89. Calling hours are Tuesday and the funeral Wednesday.  (See below) A revered figure in the Cooperstown community, he served as Hall director – then the equivalent of president – from 1976 to 1993.  Initially hired…

With Web, Hall of Fame Aims to Be World’s Home Plate

With Web, Hall of Fame Aims to Be World’s Home Plate By LIBBY CUDMORE • allotsego.com Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 25-26 One moment next summer, you’re walking past a series of apartment buildings on Brooklyn’s Sullivan Place, former home of Ebbets Field. The next, your phone rings, and you get a digital history lesson about the former home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, now the site of the apartments you’ve been walking right past. Your Baseball Hall of Fame app, entry…

Baseball Hall Of Fame Names 2015 Inductees This Afternoon

Baseball Hall Of Fame Names 2015 Inductees This Afternoon COOPERSTOWN – When the Baseball Writers’ Association of America announces its 2015 Hall of Fame ballot at 2 p.m. today, another record-setting class to match 2014 may be revealed. The new candidates on the ballot include Cy Young Award winners like Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez and John Smoltz, along with sluggers Carlos Delgado and Gary Sheffield, two-time batting champion Nomar Garciaparra and lock-down closer Troy Percival. Other first-time candidates include: Rich Aurilia, Aaron Boone,…

Randy Johnson Leads 2015 Hall of Fame Ballot

Randy Johnson Tops 2015 HoF Ballot COOPERSTOWN –  Cy Young award winner Randy Johnson tops the 2015 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot as 17 names are added to the 2015 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot as 17 names are added to consideration by the The Baseball Writers’ Association of America, the Hall of Fame announced this morning. Joining Johnson are Pedro Martinez and John Smoltz, along with sluggers Carlos Delgado and Gary Sheffield, two-time batting champion Nomar Garciaparra and lock-down closer…

Hall’s Prominence-To-Be Surprised Stephen Clark, Homer Osterhoudt

Hall’s Prominence Surprised Stephen Clark, Homer Osterhoudt By JIM KEVLIN • allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – Few people realized the Baseball Hall of Fame’s potential when it was officially opened on June 12, 1939, 75 years ago this year. Not Homer Osterhoudt, then a young man in his 20s standing in the lower left of photos taken that day of the throng in front of 25 Main.  (Osterhoudt, now in his mid-90s, has attended every induction except three since then.) At the…

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