COLUMN VIEW FROM THE GAME It’s All We Need To Know: Home Plate 17 Inches Wide Editor’s Note: Tim Mead, incoming Baseball Hall of Fame president, cited John Scolinos, baseball coach at his alma mater, Cal Poly Pomona, as a lifelong inspiration, particularly Scolinos’ famous speech “17 Inches.” Chris Sperry, who published sperrybaseballlife.com, heard Scolinos deliver a version in 1996 at the American Baseball Coaches Association in Nashville, and wrote this reminiscence in 1916 in his “Baseball Thoughts” column. By CHRIS SPERRY • from www.sperrybaseballlife.com In 1996, Coach Scolinos was 78 years old and five years retired from a college coaching…
Mr Salka represents more than Brookfield. He is a great rep for Brookfield, but also Richfield, Plainfield, Exeter, Burlington, Edmeston, Town of Otsego, Town of Hartwick, New Lisbon, Pittsfield, Laurens, Milford, Otego, and Oneonta, as well as many others in Madison and Oneida County.