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LARKIN, SANTO JOIN BASEBALL’S HEROES Larkin Tough, Dedicated, Says Pete Rose, 1st Boss

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etired Hall of Fame curator Ted Spencer, who created the exhibit that led to the hit film, “A League of Our Own,” will be a featured presenter when the Cliff Kachline SABR Chapter has its annual Induction Day meeting at 6 p.m. Sunday, July 22, at Tillapaugh’s Funeral Service, 28 Pioneer St. Call Gabe Schechter at 821-2734, or Jeff Katz at 434-5542, for details.

INDUCTION BBQ: The Cooperstown Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., will again host an Induction Weekend Brooks BBQ 2-6 p.m. Saturday, July 21.

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BOOK SIGNING: Author Dennis Corcoran will sign copies of “Induction Day at Cooperstown” noon3 p.m. Friday, July 20, at The Green Toad Bookstore, Oneonta, and in front of the Book Nook, 61 Main St., Cooperstown, Saturday and Sunday.

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Kaelyn Francis, Worcester, holds up a package of Goetta, a Cincinnati delicacy. Hey, Get Your Hotdog Here, the eatery at Main and Pioneer, is offering that porkand-beef and steel-cut oat treat – sort of like Pennsylvania scrapple, but with more texture – to Barry Larkin fans.

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or Erik Strohl, the discovery of 700 baseball cards from 1910 in an attic in Defiance, Ohio, reminded him of something back home in Cooperstown: two cards from the same set, depicting Hughie Jennings and Napoleon Lajoie.

“I was in Kansas City when the news

broke,” said Strohl, the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s senior director of exhibitions & collections. “People started contacting us, and I was surprised we only had two from this set.”

The Hall of Fame’s two cards had no cataloguing number and were most likely part of a larger collection donated to the museum. “When you think 1910, you think of that set the famous Honus Wagner card was part of,” Strohl said. “For Please See CARDS, A8

ohnny Bench. Joe Morgan. Tony Perez.

Mike Schmidt.

Despite the “bumps and bruises” that are part of Major League baseball, you could count on them to play ball, said Pete Rose in an interview with this publication.

To that list, add Barry Larkin, the 19-year Cincinnati Red who will be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame at 1:30 Sunday, July 22.

“Not many players that I know of help their team sitting on the bench,” said Rose, who was in his third

Barry Larkin at the bat.

year as Reds manager when Larkin made his Big League debut in 1986. “I want my star players like Barry Larkin – in the lineup in as many games as I can get Please See LARKIN, A5

Santo Son Celebrates Dad

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The quilt show winner was Linda Dennison of Norwich, for “The Hexagon Quilt.” Third was Lydia J. Mahoney & Co. of Schuyler Lake, for “The Quilt.”

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Seward Heads Into Fray Incumbent Faces GOP Primary, Democratic Challenger

humbled and energized by the outpouring of support I have received for my candidacy ... It is the enthusiastic encouragement from tsego County’s state senator for 26 constituents that keeps me going.” years, Jim Seward, is the odds-on By contrast, Blake submitted 1,313 signafavorite to win another term in Albany tures, somewhat above the 1,000 required. By on Tuesday, Nov. 13, but between now and presstime, no challenge had been filed with then he may face more slings and arrows than the state Board of Elections, but Republican in any campaign since that first, long-ago one insiders said to expect one. in 1986.

In Seward’s 26 years in office, this year is State Sen. Jim Seward, left, the assumed vicFirst, he faces a challenge from James unprecedented. tor in November, is nonetheless facing mulThe Freeman’s Journal Blake of Schenevus in the Tuesday, Sept. 13, Only a few years out of Hartwick College tiple slings and arrows between now and then – he was Class of ‘73 – Seward was already Dr. David Borgstrom is Republican primary, (if Blake survives an from Republican James Blake, center, and sworn in as president expected challenge to his petitions.) chairman the Otsego County Republican Democrat Howard Leib. of the Cooperstown Second – and for only a second time since Committee, the youngest chair in its history.

Central School board he was first elected – he faces a Democratic When Pete Dokuchitz of Oneonta, one of the is not to make waves.

That’s not my style.

My at the reorganizational challenger: Ithaca attorney Howard Leib, who, founders of Custom Electronics, was elected to style is to make waves.” meeting Wednesday, indicating what’s to come, said, “The advantage the Assembly, he took Seward with him.

Seward filed 3,299 signatures Thursday, July July 11. He succeeds of running when people don’t think you’re going 12, in advance of the Friday deadline, three times When Dokuchitz stepped down after two Tony Scalici, who reto win is you get to tell the truth. Seward’s style Please See SEWARD, B9 the required number, and said he was “truly mains a school board

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member. Marcy Birch was sworn in as a new board member.

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ion Wade, Clark Sports Center director for the past four years, has accepted the position of director of recreation at the University of Seattle.

His last day in his current job is Aug. 3.

In his new role, he will oversee intramurals, sports clubs and outdoor programs.

“It’s a good fit for me,” he said.

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By LIBBY CUDMORE Three Cooperstown pals, from left, Jacob Miller, Desi Gialanella and Ben Breiten, head down the Susquehanna from Council Rock on Tuesday, June 28. They paddled into Chesapeake Bay Monday, July 9.

2 Weeks On The Susquehanna, Oh My!

NEW THREAT: Cornell’s Robert Johnson, an expert on hydrilla, will discuss the

By ADRIAN ADAMO threat to Otsego Lake of that invasive at the annual meeting of the Otsego Lake Asso- COOPERSTOWN ciation Saturday, July 28, at the Biological Field Station. f you were somewhere along Coffee served at 8:30 a.m. the banks of the Susquehanna River earlier this month and LAKE CLEANUP: The heard loud singing, it might have 40th annual Otsego Lake been Ben Breiten, Desi Gialanella Cleanup Day is Sunday, and Jacob Miller passing the time Tanned and fit, Breiten, GialAug. 5, beginning at 11 a.m. as they canoed the 464 miles to anella and Miller tell of their Participants can also help adventures.

Havre de Grace, Maryland. identify invasive exotic spe“We sang a lot,” said Gialanelstuff down to Otsego Lake. It cies. Call 547-8778 if you la. “Disney songs.” would have been nice, but we did want to help.

“And any other song you could a lot of singing. And we weren’t think of,” added Miller. “We were singing quietly, either.”

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“We gave ourselves 14 days, and we did it in 14 days,” said Miller. “Which is good, because we’d only packed 14 days worth of food.”

It all started last year when, on a whim, Miller and Breiten kayaked from Cooperstown to Oneonta.

“It was fantastic,” said Breiten.

“Exhausting, but we had a lot of fun doing it. Then we decided to do it again, in February, in the snow.”

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Even before she was officially hired Wednesday, July 11 – she was due to start work Wednesday, July 18 – the new A-D has attended the Habitudes’ Growing Leaders conference in Atlanta at the end of June, and is ready to apply the lessons learned.

“This program is about helping kids grow as leaders,” she said in an interview Tuesday evening, as she headed north from Camp Wayne in Preston Park, Pa., where she was a counselor.

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THURSDAY, JULY 19, 2012

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he routing of the Continental Pipeline, discussed elsewhere on this page, is not of direct concern to Otsego County, at least right now.

It is designed to transport fracked gas from a “sweet spot” in northeastern Pennsylvania, through Broome, Chenango and Delaware counties to connect with the Tennessee and Iroquois pipelines in Schoharie, and thence to the Eastern Seaboard (and in some cases, perhaps beyond). The preliminary route runs south of Interstate 88, outside Otsego County.

Since April, the company – it is a collaboration between Tulsabased Williams, a pipeline company, and Cabot Oil & Gas – has been negotiating with hundreds of landowners to firm up a right-ofway it considers optimum. The reaction has been mixed, according to the company, ranging from

interest to antagonism.

Monday, July 16, state Rep. Pete Lopez, R-Schoharie, with state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, looking on, released the copy of a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Committee urging the route to follow the I-88 right-ofway. While that would bring the pipeline into southern Otsego County, there is merit in Lopez’ suggestion. In the end, it may be the only way the pipeline can go through.

• The moniker “controversial” has attached itself to the Continental Pipeline in some contexts, but there is nothing particularly controversial about a pipeline to transport natural gas. Go to Wikepedia. There are thousands of miles of such pipelines in the U.S. Some five dozen are considered “major” interstate connectors.

Another 100 are “minor” interstate connectors.

Locally, the Tennessee pipeline parallels Route 20 across northern Otsego County, with processing stations near Richfield Springs and Esperance. During the Mario Cuomo Administration, there was a leak and explosion near Summit, but in the decades since it’s been an unobtrusive neighbor.

It’s not far-fetched to imagine that, if the pipeline goes through – the target is to complete it by 2015 – it will be largely forgotten.

Except, worst-case scenario, if something bad happens. (It’s too bad Cabot was the company involved in the tainted water in Dimock, Pa.) Or, alternately, best-case scenario, if natural gas actually becomes an economical fuel for households and economic development.

As it stands now, natural gas

“per therm” is 25 percent less expensive than oil. When you look at an institution like Bassett Hospital, that would translate into hundreds of thousands of dollars in short order. Looking ahead, the trend nationally seems to be toward ever cheaper natural gas for a while to come.

In Sidney, the idea of using natural gas from, not horizontal hydrofracking, but a nearby vertical well for the proposed new Amphenol plant has proved problematic. No matter, if the Constitution Pipeline goes through. The company can simply tap in.

How many other communities along the pipeline’s 121-mile route might likewise tap in and share the benefits of lower-cost energy?

• Is it possible to differentiate between what’s good for our locality and what’s beneficial for

the nation as a whole? It’s tricky.

Is it possible to decry fracking in the Glimmerglass Region, yet see fracking in Wyoming as part of a national energy solution?

Similar arguments have been made here before: Industrial wind turbines are inappropriate in relatively populous Upstate New York. But are they appropriate to North Dakota, with a population of a half-million and huge open spaces (if there indeed were access to a 21st-century grid, outfitted with Ioxus ultracapacitors)?

Who wants a solar-panel farm in Neahwa Park? But in Arizona’s sun-baked deserts, why not?

On a trip to Philadelphia the other day, a gas pipe could be seen to the west, just north of Scranton, spewing burning gas 50 feet or more into the air. Could that wasted gas be put to better use heating homes and powering factories?

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hroughout his remarkable career, Larkin had occasionally led the National League in traditional defensive categories such as fielding percentage, assists and putouts as a shortstop. However, the true measure of his immense skills as a shortstop are captured by Bill James’ innovative and inclusive statistic, Range Factor per Nine Innings as Shortstop.

Larkin had led the National League in this statistic for three consecutive seasons (1989-91) at a time where Ozzie Smith was at the tail end of winning 13 consecutive Gold Gloves (19801992). Larkin even led all of Major League Baseball in this statistic during the 1989 and 1991 seasons.

Similarly, Larkin had achieved success with another statistic created by Bill James called Range Factor per Game as Shortstop.

Once again, Larkin had led the National League in this statistic for three consecutive seasons (1989-1991) and even led all of Major League Baseball in 1991.

Even though Larkin had achieved a respectable level of success as a defensive shortstop, his offensive exploits are what clearly separated him from everyone

else during the zenith of his career. Larkin had amassed nine seasons where he had batted at least .300. He also had nine seasons in which he had achieved double figures in home runs with a career high 33 in 1996.

In that same season, Larkin would also become the first shortstop in baseball history to join the exclusive “30/30″ club.

Besides accomplishing this historic feat, Larkin also led the Reds during the season in games played (152), plate appearances (627), runs (117), home runs (33), runs batted in (89), on base percentage (.410), slugging percentage (.567) and stolen bases (36). Barry Larkin would mature into a complete ball player who was a legitimate threat both on defense and offense.

One statistic that normally gets overlooked when it comes to Barry Larkin is stolen bases. Larkin had stolen 20 or more bases in a season nine times and even reached 51 stolen bases during his MVP season of 1995. Larkin had attempted to steal a base on 456 occasions during his 19 year career and he was successful 379 times.

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MATTHEW SWIFT Other Voices

Public Input Can Still Change Gas Pipeline Route Editor’s Note: This is the letter sent out by the Continental Pipeline’s project manager, Matthew Swift, in advance of public meetings held this month. The final two are at 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, July 25, at Franklin Central School, and the following evening at the Best Western in Cobleskill.

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s project manager for the Constitution natural gas pipeline project, the most common question I get asked is, “Where are you proposing to put that pipeline?”

My answer is, “We’re still trying to figure that out.”

For those of you who haven’t heard, the Constitution Pipeline is a proposed 121-mile, 30-inch pipeline that would create a bridge The Constitution Pipeline Web site has this route, but describes it as “preconnecting natural gas produced in Pennsylvania with liminary” and subject to discussion. gas-hungry markets in the resources and archeologiso that they don’t become portunity to evaluate the Northeast. cal sites and also high-value, surprises later. input we collect, our goal As the project manager, long life-cycle agricultural Fortunately, we aren’t is to refine the proposal and my job is to help figure out land uses such as tree farms developing this project in file a certificate application the best place to site the and orchards. a vacuum. We’ve solicited with the Federal Energy pipeline in a way that miniFinally, we’re trying input from property owners, Regulatory Commission mizes impacts on people and to choose a route that can municipal, environmental (FERC) early next year. the environment. Yes, we be constructed and operand community leaders. To The FERC is the primary think we have a pretty good ated safely. Unless you’ve date we’ve conducted more federal regulatory agency preliminary route, but right witnessed it first-hand, it’s than 100 meetings with that determines whether or now the route is just a line difficult to appreciate the these stakeholders, collectnot interstate transmission on a map – a line that is get- size and scope of the people ing valuable input that will pipelines should be built. ting discussed and reworked and equipment necessary ultimately help shape the The FERC will conduct its on a daily basis. to safely install a 30-inch final project footprint. These own public hearings as it Routing decisions aren’t transmission pipeline. We meetings have generated evaluates the environmental always black and white. will need up to 125 feet of nearly two dozen significant effects and market need of There are a whole host of workspace to construct our route alternatives that we’re the project. considerations when trypipeline. This amount of currently in the process of I’d like to thank the large ing to identify a route from workspace, which may seem exploring. I’m confident that number of property owners Susquehanna County, Pa., like a lot, is necessary to some of these alternatives who have given us permisto Schoharie County. At the properly install the pipewill likely be adopted as part sion to conduct field enviend of the day, it’s a balanc- line so that it can be safely of the primary route. ronmental and cultural reing act. operated and maintained An important opportunity source surveys on their land.

First, we are trying to throughout its entire life. for the public to share their The data we collect during avoid disturbing people by I think many of the people thoughts with us will be dur- these site visits – in addirouting the pipeline away who ask me where the pipe- ing our public open house tion to the on-the-ground from populated areas. This line will be located assume meetings this month. We’ll feedback they’ve provided just makes sense. We recthe route is already set in have people from the com– is extremely beneficial in ognize that the installation stone, and they’re surprised pany representing a wide helping us evaluate where of this type of infrastructure to learn it isn’t. Determining variety of disciplines present we can (and can’t) install can be an inconvenience, the best location for pipeline to discuss the proposal, repipeline facilities. so we try to minimize any facilities is a long regulaview maps and listen to your This is a long process and inconveniences by keeptory process that involves a feedback.

I sincerely appreciate your ing it in areas that aren’t as significant amount of public We’d strongly encourage patience and cooperation. heavily populated. input. you to attend if you have And for those of you who Second, we want to Throughout this process, ideas or suggestions you’d are still wondering where minimize environmental im- our goal at Constitution like to share. You can learn we are going to put the pipepacts, specifically wetland Pipeline Company is to cre- more about the times and line, I’d encourage you to and wildlife habitat areas, in ate a dialogue with interlocations of these meetings attend one of our upcoming addition to river and stream ested parties so that we can on our website at www.con- meetings and tell us what crossings. This also includes work together to identify stitutionpipeline.com. you think. avoiding impacts to cultural and address issues up front Once we’ve had an opWe’ll be listening.

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Pete Rose: Barry Larkin Gave All Every Game LARKIN/From A1 him. Not 120 games, not 130 games, I want him in 150-160 games.”

In the January conference call following the announcement of Larkin’s election to the Hall, the inductee likewise singled Rose, his first Major League manager, for praise.

“Pete Rose taught me the importance of hustling and playing Pete Rose through pain and Injury,” he said.

Said Rose, “I watched him in the minor leagues and had the honor of calling him up to the Major Leagues. When he first came up we had another shortstop that was a real good player from California named Kurt Stillwell. After jockeying them both in and out of the lineup and giving them a chance to play…I’ll never forget what Barry said.

“He called me ‘Skip.’

He said: ‘Skip, I’ll tell you something; you might as well trade Stillwell, because I’m gonna be your shortstop for the next 10-15 years.’

“And we did trade Stillwell to Kansas City where he had a very successful career and the other guy” – Larkin – “went on to have a Hall of Fame career. He’s my first player that I’ve brought up that’s made it to the Hall of Fame.”

Larkin, just the 11th shortstop to be elected to the Hall on the Baseball Writer’s ballot, ranks smack-dab in the middle among shortstops enshrined in Cooperstown in most offensive categories and near the top in others.

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Hall of Fame inductee-to-be Barry Larkin contemplates the spot in the Hall of Plaques where he will be honored after the Sunday, July 22, induction. During a May 6 visit to Cooperstown, he was flanked by wife Lisa and the Hall of Fame’s Erik Strohl.

company Larkin keeps: His .295 career batting average is higher than luminaries such as Robin Yount (.285), Cal Ripken (.276) and Ernie Banks (.274). But despite statistical evidence that Larkin’s career was indeed Hall-of-Fame worthy, he fell well-short of the 75 percent of votes required receiving respective totals of 51.6 percent and 62.1 percent in his first two years on the ballot.

Still, Larkin breezed into the Hall this past January, garnering 86.4 percent (495 of 573 votes) of the Baseball Writers Association of America ballots in his third year of eligibility. The jump of 24.3 percent from the previous ballot is the largest in any regular Baseball

Writers’ Hall of Fame election in which at least 400 ballots were cast dating back to 1986.

When pressed for an explanation, New York Daily News sportswriter Bill Madden said: “I think it was this year’s ballot; it was a very weak ballot and he was clearly the stand-out candidate. He was the dominant National League shortstop of his time.”

A 12-time All-Star shortstop, Larkin spent all 19 of his Big League seasons – 1986-2004 – with his hometown Cincinnati Reds. Regarded as one of the game’s good guys, he led his team by example and was universally respected from the top of the front

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“Throughout his entire life, both on and off the field, Barry has represented himself and our city with the class and professionalism consistent with the ideals of the Reds, Major League Baseball and the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown,” said Reds CEO Bob Castellini in a statement.

As an analyst for ESPN’s Baseball Tonight during the past two seasons following a three-year stint on the MLB Network, “he continues to be one of our game’s greatest ambassadors,” said Castellini.

A smart guy who learned Spanish to better communicate with some of his team-

mates, Larkin also used his brain to compile the highest percentage (83 percent) of successful stolen base attempts by any shortstop during his playing days.

A three-time National League Rawling’s Gold Glove winner at shortstop, Larkin was also a nine-time Louisville Silver Slugger award winner, presented to the best offensive player at each position, which is perhaps more telling and emblematic of the type of player he was.

“Barry had a lot of ability, he had speed and a good arm and the thing I liked about Barry; he knew how to play the game. He played the game right he knew to get the guy over from sec-

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ond to third he knew to get the guy in from third with less than two outs he knew when to sacrifice and when not to sacrifice he was kind of a student of the game that’s why he made a good captain of the team,” said Rose.

Larkin was the Reds’ team captain from 1997 through his final season in 2004.

Racking up 2,340 hits with 198 home runs, 960 RBI and 379 stolen bases, Larkin, was a proto-type, precursor to offensive oriented shortstops to follow.

He is the only shortstop in Major League history to collectively reach the 2,300hit, 190-home run and 370 stolen base plateaus and is one of only 18 players to appear in at least 2,000 games at the position.

He was the National League’s MVP in 1995 hitting a career-high .319 and became the first shortstop to join the 30/30 club (home runs and stolen bases) in 1996, making him one of only seven National League shortstops to hit more than 30 long balls in a season and still holds the Reds record at the position with 33. Larkin became the first shortstop in 40 years to hit higher than .300 in five consecutive seasons from 1989-1993.

Baseball historian/statistician Bill James called Larkin “one of the 10 most complete players in history” Larkin is the 24th shortstop elected to the Hall of Fame, joining Luis Aparicio, Luke Appling, Ernie Banks, Lou Boudreau, Joe Cronin, Rabbit Maranville, Cal Ripken, Ozzie Smith, Honus Wagner and Robin Yount as just the 11th to be voted in on the regular Baseball Writers Association of America ballot: Glad company indeed.

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DONAHOE/From A1 The heroes of the game’s families will be represented by Larry Doby Jr. (Larry Doby’s son), Stargell’s widow Margaret Weller-Stargell, Joe DiMaggio’s granddaughter Kathie DiMaggio Stein and Ted Williams’ daughter Claudia.

The ceremony inside the hall is invitation-only, but the public may view the goings via close-circuit TV in Cooper Park. Afterwards, the stamps will be go on sale, and dignitaries will be on hand to autograph the stamps.

Saturday, the stamps will also be available in Boston, Cleveland, New York City and Pittsburgh.

The Postal Service has been keeping stats since announcing the Major League Baseball All-Stars Forever series on Opening Day in April, and

more than a million have been presold: Red Sox Ted Williams 300,385; Yankee DiMaggio 290,925, Pirate Stargell 237,785, and Cleveland Indian Doby 232,745. “It’s been creating a lot of excitement,” said Maureen Marion, USPS regional media rep. Order yours at www.usps.com/play-ball.

As Yogi Berra would put it, the day will be deja vu all over again for Marion, although – she hopes – less dramatically so. The last time she was in Cooperstown was in the winter 1993, along with Stargell, for the launch of a stamp marking the 90th anniversary of the World Series.

As she was heading home, she learned on her cell phone – in those days, cell phones were the size of shoeboxes – that icy “microbursts” had wreaked havoc across the North

Country and Adirondacks, which would hinder mail delivery – not to mention her efforts to get home.

You may have noticed the sprucing up of the Cooperstown post office in recent days – among other things, the parking lot was torn up, relaid and repaved – in preparation, no doubt, for the Big Boss’ visit.

Donahoe, a 35-year USPS veteran, was promoted from COO to the top job in 2010, and since then has been in the middle of struggles to reposition the Postal Service for longterm stability. It was he, in a hearing before the U.S. Senate in 2011, that proposed eliminating Saturday delivery, closing 3,700 offices and laying off 120,000 postal workers, a plan that’s still being worked through.

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CARDS/From A1 this many cards to be found in one trove is amazing.”

The cards were examples from what’s called the E98 Baseball Card Set distributed with packets of caramels.

Each set had only 30 cards, including Honus Wagner and Ty Cobb, members of the Hall’s original 1939 class, and Cy Young. The names of all 30 players were listed on the back of each, which are a little more than half the size of the more familiar Topps baseball cards.

They would have been given away as a promotional item, but Strohl isn’t sure whether they were packaged with the caramels, or simply handed over the counter when a customer bought the candy. Nothing more is known about the candy product either, he said: “It’s kind of a mystery. None of those packages survived.”

“In the 19th century, baseball was associated with tobacco products,” Strohl said. “By 1910, the whole idea was to use baseball to entice kids to buy candy – same idea as a Happy Meal today. They either came with the products or with proof of purchase.”

Karl Kissner found a box of baseball cards in his grandfather’s Ohio attic in February. His grandfather, Carl Hench, owned a meat market, and Strohl speculates the man may have gotten the large number of cards from a vendor as part of a product promotion.

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condition scale of 1 to 10. “We’re talking massive duplication,” Strohl said. “Professional Sports Authenticator, the company that authenticated the cards, said they had seen less than 700 of these cards in total ever, and had never seen a Ty Cobb in more than 7 condition.”

Thirty-seven of these cards are expected to fetch total of $500,000 at National Sports Collectors Convention in Baltimore in August.

The entire collection, which was divided up among the family, is worth an estimated $2-3 million.

The Hall of Fame’s Hughie and Lajoie cards have never been displayed.

“We have 138,000 baseball cards,” Strohl said. “”We have more stuff than we could possibly display.”

Though the Hall of Fame will not be participating in any attempts to purchase the cards, they would be happy to accept any cards family members might want to donate. “We’re into preserving history,” he said.

“I think it’s cool that the grandfather thought about saving this – he recognized that some people were interested and didn’t throw these cards away. It would be great if some of those cards ended up here.”

“Collectors collect for themselves,” he continued.

“We show things for all fans of baseball, and we take great pride in being able to share and maintain that collection. It would be wonderful if these cards could be shared as a donation.”

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Baseball Hero Santo Contributed Mightily To Diabetes Awareness SANTO/From A1 wasn’t here, but I know it was joy because we were jumping up and down,� said Jeff, whose 2006 documentary film “This Old Cub� was an award winner five years ago at the Hall of Fame’s Baseball Film Festival. “That’s the great thing about the Hall. We were all bummed out about how he didn’t get the call until a year and a half after he died, but now more people are going to understand about what he’s done not just in baseball but in life.�

Jeff Santo recently revised the film to include the last chapters of his dad’s life and the time since his passing, including the memorial service held in Chicago, the Hall of Fame announcement, his last “Walk for the Cure� diabetes-awareness fundraiser and a final interview with his son two weeks before he died.

The Hall’s Dec. 5 congratulatory call on Santo’s election by the newly formed Golden Era Committee came from Jane

Forbes Clark, the Hall’s president, and was answered

by Santo’s widow. It was almost a year to the day Santo died from complications of bladder cancer.

Jane Clark then handed the phone to Billy Williams, Santo’s teammate and Golden Era Committee member. “It was very fitting,� said Jeff, “because Ron and Billy came up together and now there are two statues of them standing next to each other at Wrigley Field.�

The 2003 cut of “This Old Club� ended with Santo not getting into the Hall; ending the revised version with the Dec. 5 call suggests that, while important, the induction Sunday, July 22, on the Clark Sports Center fields is part of a larger piece: Santo’s struggle as the only position player in Major League history to be afflicted with Type 1 Juvenile Diabetes. “The annual Walk to Cure Diabetes that he started has been going on for 35 years,� said Jeff. “He raised more than $60 million for the

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Santo made his big league debut with the Cubs in 1960, finishing fourth in Rookie of the Year voting.

Three years later, he made his first of nine All-Star game appearances. He would go on to hit .277 with 342 home runs and 1,331 RBIs in 15 big league seasons, all but one with the Cubs.

He hit at least 30 home runs in four straight seasons in 1964-67 and drove in at least 100 runs four times, including a career-best 123RBI season in 1969. He won five consecutive Gold Glove Awards from 1964-68. “I never campaigned for him,� Jeff said of his dad. “I made a movie about my dad, about his story, what he went through to make it as a baseball player. I’m a filmmaker. I wanted to make sure it was a film about a man not a movie about a father by his son,� said Santo.

His legacy is more about how many people he touched and what he did for people with diabetes. And what he was able to accomplish off the field as well as on.�

Santo had fallen just short of being elected on the two previous Veteran’s Committee ballots, missing by eight votes in 2005 and just five in 2007. He was finally elected on the 2011 ballot after a new voting process was devised creating separate subcommittees to vote on individuals active during different eras of baseball history. This year’s committee considered Santo in the context of the game’s Golden Era, 1947-72.

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Ron Santo doted on sons Ron and Jeff during his days as a Chicago Cub. After Santo’s death, filmmaker son Jeff memorialized his father in a documentary.

mittee, just like the recently created Expansion Era Committee and the Pre-Integration Era Committee, will be reconstituted every three years. It is not a permanent sitting committee.

This year’s committee included Hall of Fame members Hank Aaron, Pat Gillick, Ralph Kiner, Tommy Lasorda, Juan Marichal, Brooks Robinson and Billy Williams as well as major league executives Paul Beeston (Toronto Blue Jays), Bill DeWitt (St. Louis Cardinals), Roland Hemond (Arizona Diamondbacks), Gene Michael (New York

Yankees), Al Rosen (retired) and members of the media Dick Kaegel, Jack O’Connell and Dave Van Dyck. “I definitely did think he had a good chance this time because the committee was a select group of Hall of Fame players, broadcasters, and writers from my dad’s era; players like Billy Williams, Brooks Robinson, Henry Aaron, guys that played with my dad,� said Jeff Santo, adding, “but I still had doubts. You don’t believe it until you hear it and we had gone through so much rejection before.�

While Santo continued to wait on the Hall, the Chicago Cubs organization and the teams’ fans had already heaped accolades and honors upon him, previously bestowed to only a select few.

The Cubs retired Santo’s number 10 on September, 28 2003, making him at the time just the third player to be so honored; a flag of his jersey flying above Wrigley Field along with teammates, Ernie Banks (#14) and Billy Williams (#26). “I thought you had to be a Hall of Famer to have your number retired,� said Santo during the ceremony, and indeed both Banks and Williams were already enshrined in Cooperstown. “But this flag hanging down there means more to me than the Hall of Fame. This is my Hall of Fame.�

On Aug. 10, 2011, eight months after his death, and four months before the announcement of his election to the Hall of Fame, the team erected a statue in Santo’s honor just beyond the right field bleachers outside of Wrigley Field on the corner of Addison Street and Sheffield Avenue; again joining the ranks of Banks and Williams, and long-time Cubs broadcaster Harry Caray as the only members of the Cubs organization to have statues cast in the image at Wrigley Field.

Santo’s move to the radio broadcast booth came transpired 16 years after his playing days were though but he transitioned with relative ease. “It was beautiful to see,� says son Jeff, “It was just like he was right back at home.�

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