Last Of The Ninth For Baseball's Hall Of Fame Game

I am good at Googling! The Hall of Fame has a whole section of its site dedicated to game results, with a writeup of each one at least in the 2000s.

 

The game really was getting to be pretty pointless. All the players people paid to see stepped off the field shortly after their names were announced. I'll miss the tradition, but I can understand it being removed.

 

A high school baseball team I covered plays a bi-annual regular season game there. I traveled with them and took in the sights of Cooperstown for the second time. The game was a slugfest though, I think the team I covered won 8-7 in the bottom of the seventh.

 

Yep...name one team in the last 10 years who actually dressed any of their regular pitching staff for the game.

 

When was this game moved off induction weekend? More importantly, WHY?

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

 

Simple...name one team that wants to give up a weekend home gate.

 

The game always was on Monday.

 

An old-timers' softball game at Doubleday Field would be perfect for Induction Weekend.

The Hall of Fame Game is an outdated tradition from an era when baseball teams scheduled exhibitions on off-days throughout the season. And even then, stars played 3-4 innings -- if they showed up at all* -- got an at-bat or two, passed the hat around, and then took the early train to whatever city was next on the trip.



* Excluding Babe Ruth. He had to make the trip for almost all of those in-season games, because that's who the crowds were there to see. No rest for the weary, or for gods among men.

 

Agreed.