[...]... and Cleland were pushing their museum idea, Major League baseball of cials were starting to make plans for a baseball centennial celebration in 1939 —100 years after Abner Doubleday supposedly invented the game Frick suggested that a Hall of Fame be established at the museum to honor the best ballplayers — an idea that was heartily accepted The Baseball Writers Association of America was called upon... replacement players at the start of the 1995 season He retired at the end of that season Anderson was an infielder who played one full season in the Major Leagues and hit 218 for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1959 He played a few years in the minor leagues and then began a managerial career that eventually led to being inducted into the Hall of Fame AS Year 1959 Team Phil G 152 AB 477 R 42 AS Year 1970... owners Barney Dreyfuss and Walter O’Malley and managers Billy Southworth and Dick Williams It failed to elect Marvin Miller, the man who spearheaded the labor movement for players that has changed the salary structure and made free agency of way of life in the game Among the most vocal critics of the omission of Miller was Fay Vincent, a former commissioner Hall of Fame voters are now dealing with another... hit a total of 96 home runs, never more than 12 in one year, which was a good output in the “dead ball” era In the second game of the 1911 World Series, Baker, playing for the Philadelphia A s, hit a home run off of future Hall of Famer Rube Marquard of John McGraw’s New York Giants The homer broke a 1–1 tie and set the stage for a Philadelphia victory In the next game, Baker connected off another baseball. .. the help of a business associate, Alexander Cleland, he decided to take the idea a step further — to establish a National Baseball Museum in Cooperstown The two men got the backing of National League president Ford Frick Frick enthusiastically approached American League president Will Harridge and commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, and they, too, supported the idea At about the same time Clark and... Dodger games from 1939 through 1953, then teamed with Mel Allen on New York Yankee broadcasts for ten years Barber was the announcer for five All-Star games, ten World Series and, in the “off season” broadcast Rose Bowl, Orange Bowl, Sugar Bowl and Army-Navy games Barber was known for his command of the language, always grammatical and proper, almost reverent, and he was a reporter, rather than a fan, with... ship Anson was a player-manager for 20 years of his 22-year career Cap Anson was unquestionably baseball s first superstar He played 22 years for the Chicago White Stockings of the old National League — all before 1900 He never hit 400 for a season but hit 399 one year and 396 in another Anson won four batting titles and had a lifetime batting average of 339 In his last Major League season, he hit 302 at... in 1956 and was the American League’s Rookie of the Year He led the American League in stolen bases nine years in a row — his first nine years in the Majors — and stole more than 50 bases in four different seasons In 1959, the only season since 1919 that the White Sox have won the American League championship, Aparicio was the leadoff man and stole 56 bases on a team that came to be known as the “Go-Go... Years in Major Leagues: 20 Elected to Hall of Fame: 1964 Nickname: Old Aches and Pains — because of his frequent complaints about injuries, real and imagined Luke Appling played 20 years in the Major Leagues, all with the same team — the Chicago White Sox — and had a lifetime batting average of 310 He batted over 300 in 16 of his 20 seasons and won two batting titles His 388 average in 1936 remains the. .. the Tigers won the division championship but lost the League Championship series to the Minnesota Twins Anderson was the first manager to win World Series championships in both the American and National Leagues 13 Anderson He was popular with the press because of his accessibility and his candor He said, The players make the manager It’s never the other way.” When he was manager of the Reds and was . the same as mine in A Biographical Dictio- nary of the Baseball Hall of Fame to provide the serious researcher as well as the casual reader with an unbiased,. ballplayers—an idea that was heartily accepted. The Baseball Writers Association of America was called upon to elect the Hall of Fame members. In January 1936, they