JEFF IDELSON OBSERVES: ‘Grassroots’ Clinics Lure Youngsters Back To Baseball By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – During one of his clinics in Chicago, Grassroots Baseball co-founder Jeff Idelson got to see first-hand how baseball can change a life. “We were at the Union League Boys & Girls Club in Chicago and Goose Gossage was playing catch with a young boy,” he said. “This kid had never put a glove on, and afterwards, his older brother came over…
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Idelson’s New Mission Bring Kids Back To Baseball By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN Once upon a time, retired Baseball Hall of Fame president Jeff Idelson was a center fielder for the Newton Central Little League. And though he retired from baseball at age 12, he never forgot the importance of the field. Since stepping down as Hall of Fame president, Idelson co-founded Grassroots Baseball, a program aimed at getting 21st Century youngsters into the game with talks,…
HALL OF FAME INDUCTION 2019 Jeff Idelson Honored, With Spink, Frick Prize Winners Outgoing Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson, left; Jayson Stark, recipient of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award, and Idelson’s successor, Tim Mead, wave from the stage at the conclusion of the ninth annual Hall Of Fame Awards presentation at Doubleday Field this afternoon. Between Stark and Mead is Mariano Rivera, the Yankee star pitcher, one of six players being inducted tomorrow. Idelson, who is seen embracing Jane…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Teamwork: A Way Of Life Tim Mead’s Now Bringing Here L.A. Angels Communications/VP To Succeed Idelson After Induction By JIM KEVLIN • www.AllOTSEGO.com Exclusive COOPERSTOWN – Tim Mead, who will become the seventh president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame following this year’s Induction on July 21, has been a team player in the front office at the Los Angeles Angels for four decades. But for the Angels’ vice president/communications, team playing didn’t start there. When young…
JEFF IDELSON RETIRING HoF Chief ‘Good For Hall, Village’ By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN – He was there in 2014 when the first sitting president, Barack Obama, visited the National Baseball Hall of Fame, pitching his tourism strategy. He was there that fall when Little League World Champion pitcher Mo’Ne Davis, a national phenomenon, took a break from Cooperstown All Star Village in Oneonta to donate her jersey to the Hall. He was there in 2017 on the steps of the…
His Fans On Twitter Praise Jeff Idelson, Mourn Retirement Editor’s Note: Twitter lit up overnight with praise for Jeff Idelson, who annouced Monday, Feb. 4, that he is retiring as Baseball Hall of Fame president. Here is a sampling. Bob Nightengale: Jeff Idelson has been the heart and soul of Baseball’s Hall of Fame Museum for 25 years, and @HallofFamePrez will be greatly missed in Cooperstown. Idelson said that he’ll officially step down after the Hall of Fame ceremony on…
HALL OF FAME CLASSIC 2017 Homer Simpson In Baseball Hall With Jane Forbes Clark, chairman of the board, Jon Shestakofsky, VP/communications, and Jeff Idelson, president, right, Homer Jay Simpson of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant softball team was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame at the end of a 25th anniversary round-table discussion of The Simpsons TV show’s “Homer At The Bat” episode. Behind Idelson are fellow Hall of Famers and Power Plant teammates Wade Boggs and Ozzie Smith. “If…
Hall Leadership Remembers Yogi As Icon, Legend, Great American “Yogi Berra was an American icon, whose impact on baseball and everyday American culture was enormous. Yogi connected with every baseball fan, as a 10-time World Series winner with the New York Yankees, as one of the world’s most notable personalities, and as one of baseball’s most beloved Hall of Fame members. His contributions to our game and to our country will never be forgotten. The National Baseball Hall of Fame…
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…