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...many said that his historic baseball achievements—which, several witnesses vouched, would be more than enough to guarantee a place in the Cooperstown, N.Y. Hall—could not distract from the allegation that Rose violated a supreme rule of the game by betting on his own sport and team...
...possibly Kostelic's. Riding with Shea inside his helmet was a photograph of his grandfather, a former speed-skater who had been America's oldest living Winter Olympics champion until his death in a car crash just before the Games. The Sheas are legends in Lake Placid, America's Cooperstown of winter sports tradition. Now Jim Jr. is a legend throughout the land, having slid through the storm on his small sled to dramatic, unexpected victory. And he, alone among athletes in Salt Lake, tried to take it to another level. He said medals and golds and winning were...
...other sport, baseball enshrines its history, most notably in the bosky village of Cooperstown, New York. There, hard by the pristine waters of Lake Otesaga, one finds the National Baseball Museum, the National Baseball Library and the Hall of Fame. Within the cathedral silence of the Hall visitors meet past greats, gazing mildly from bronze plaques mounted on the walls. Gathered there are the greatest ball players ever: Ruth and Gehrig, DiMaggio and Mantle, Koufax and Mathewson. The effect is stirring; unfortunately, U.S. baseball's racist past has been underplayed. It is as if we were reading a fine authorized...
...it’s true that New York doesn’t love Roger, he doesn’t want to hear it. Clemens has indicated on numerous occasions that when he goes into Cooperstown, he will be wearing a Yankees cap. Why? Because, he says, he won a World Series with the Yankees...
...baseball gods were at Cooperstown or someplace on Sunday, because if they were at Harvard, that ball would have been out of here...