사설토토

Previous Baltimore Sun Sports Reporter Honored By Baseball Hall Of Fame
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Writer Tim Kurkjian and the late Jack Graney, the main previous significant association player to move to the transmission stall, were respected Saturday by the Baseball Hall of Fame for their commitments to the game.

사설토토

Kurkjian was given the Baseball Writers' Association of America's Career Excellence Award. He started his vocation in 1979 at the Washington Star and after two years was the Texas Rangers beat essayist for The Dallas Morning News. After four years, he got back to his local Maryland and joined The Baltimore Sun, covering the Orioles for a very long time. He then burned through seven years as a senior baseball essayist at Sports Illustrated.

"It's such a distinction to be here," said Kurkjian, who moved to broadcasting at ESPN in 1998. "This has been the most overpowering, most overwhelming experience of my life. That affection for the game, not in that frame of mind of beauty or ability, has conveyed my profession. It was an honor to cover the game quite a while back, and presently 40 years after the fact, it is as yet an honor. Baseball is the best game."

Graney was regarded after death with the Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasting, however he began his vocation on the field for Cleveland and was the primary significant association player to bat against Babe Ruth (1914). He completed a 14-year playing vocation in 1922 and after a stretch in car deals was recruited in 1932 by Cleveland radio staion WHK to call games. He endured 22 years calling them for a few stations and is currently generally viewed as the primary previous major association player to communicate a significant association game.

Graney, who likewise called the 1935 World Series for a public crowd in 1935 and that year's All-Star Game in Cleveland, kicked the bucket in 1978.

Granddaughter Perry Smith talked for his benefit.

"In the event that Jack were here today, he could never educate you regarding his accomplishments,"she said. "He was a particularly modest man. Furthermore, he presumably was humiliated by acclaim. This is the way Jack portrayed his profession. He said, 'I generally attempted to give the fans a legitimate record. It was a huge obligation. Also, consistently I remembered that I was the eyes of the radio crowd. I just attempted to give my all and I trust my best was adequate.'"

Additionally Saturday, in excess of 50 Hall of Famers participated in the yearly Parade of Legends. Seats were arranged four profound on Main Street over four hours before the motorcade started. Inside the Hall of Fame's Plaque Gallery, a few fans wearing Red Sox gear halted to take photographs where the plaque of previous Red Sox slugger David Ortiz, afffectionately called Big Papi, will hang after his enlistment.

Large number of Red Sox fans lined the course through the town community, many wearing Big Papi's No. 34 on the back, and around 20 were conveying a Domincian Republic banner and reciting "Papi! Papi!" Several keepsake tables were set up with Ortiz enlistment shirts in red and blue.

Ortiz is only the 58th player chosen by the Baseball Writers' Association of America in his initial experience on the Hall of Fame polling form. He's important for the seven-part Class of 2022 that will be accepted on Sunday.

Joining Ortiz in front of an audience will be three-time batting champion Tony Oliva and 283-game victor Jim Kaat.

Likewise getting their due on enlistment day are: Dodgers extraordinary Gil Hodges, who dealt with the New York Mets to their most memorable World Series title in 1969; Minnie Miñoso, a star with the Chicago White Sox during the 1950s; Buck O'Neil, who played for the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro Leagues and was a vigorous promoter for the game; and Bud Fowler, a spearheading Black player who experienced childhood in Cooperstown during the 1860s and played in excess of twelve associations.