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Preserving a Tradition
baseballmusings.com — ... February 04, 2008 Preserving a Tradition If you want to help save the Hall of Fame game, this site wants you to e-mail the powers that be . Posted by David Pinto at ...

Do Your Part in Preserving Tradition at Doubleday Field
The Jaunt — ... The Jaunt received an email from Save the Hall of Fame Game urging baseball fans -- purists and otherwise -- to help save one of baseball's long-standing traditions. We certainly side with this movement and we encourage anyone reading this right now to visit their site and send off an email to MLB President & COO Bob Dupuy, MLB Players Association head Don Fehr and Hall of Fame president Dale Petroskey. For you lazy-asses (including myself), they've even done the writing for you. So there really is no excuse. Just click on the link to send your ...

Friday Happy Hour at the Elysian Fields Bar & Grill
Postcards from Elysian Fields — ... * They are playing in China and Japan this year but are finding it hard to play in the birthplace of baseball. Check out www.savethefamegame.com. ...

Saturday morning
Lone Star Ball — ... Since noone has anything to do Rangers-wise today Check out this website. It is dedicated to saving the Hall of Fame game in Cooperstown, NY. It is being shut down for "several reasons" by MLB, but we the fans can bring it back. More information, and an email that can be sent to several executives, can be found on this website. Save the Hall of Fame Game Gig 'Em Aggies! 2010 by ...

Save the Hall of Fame Game
The Hardball Times — ... Dave Studeman February 13, 2008 Major League Baseball has announced that it intends to cancel the Hall of Fame game, an annual exhibition that has taken place in Cooperstown for years. As someone who attended many Hall of Fame games in his youth, this makes me sad. The HOF game presents a chance for fans to get up close and personal with baseball players, and it's the last in-season exhibition game still going. I would personally love to see it continued. If you agree, visit the Save the Game website . Dave is the manager of the ...

MLB Hall of Fame Game Cooperstown
Mop Up Duty | Baseball News Sabermetric | Baseball History Bio — MLB Hall of Fame Game Cooperstown Very rarely do we “farm out” websites and causes here at the Mop Up Duty. But this is one cause that I feel should be supported. Save the Hall of Fame Game .com Beginning in 1940 the hall of fame game is a strong traditions in baseball. 2008 will be the last time this game takes place with Major League teams. (I’d write up a full history but the featured website does a great job, so head over there once your done.) I agree with every point that’s been put forth pertaining to the “scheduling conflict”. Sure, its a bitch to traverse the roads ...

Save the Fame Game
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog — Save the Fame Game A grassroots campaign by Cooperstown locals to save their summertime tradition: Don’t allow Major League Baseball to flex its corporate muscle and kill a good thing without even discussing it with the folks that it will affect the most. Besides the economic impact of the decision, for most residents in the broader area of New York state that Cooperstown sits within, the closest Major League city is 4-6 hours away. The Hall of Fame Game is their one opportunity every year to see Major League Baseball without having to break the bank on gas or ticket prices.

Clinton and Acuri Join Save the Hall of Fame Game Movement
The Jaunt — ... , we pointed out the grass roots initiative of Save the Hall of Fame Game which is headed up by former Cooperstown resident Kristian Connolly. Fans all around the world joined in to write to Hall of Fame representatives hoping to persuade them into reversing their decision to end the long-standing tradition of Major League Baseball's classic Hall of Fame game played at Doubleday Field in Cooperstown, NY. ...

The Griddle: The Hall of Fame Game now becomes crucial issue in presidential campaign
Baseball Toaster — The Hall of Fame Game now becomes crucial issue in presidential campaign 2008-02-23 10:29 by Bob Timmermann OK, I'm exaggerating . But Hillary Clinton is backing the movement to save the Hall of Fame Game in Cooperstown. If she gets elected, I'm guessing reinstituing the Hall of Fame will be Executive Order #1! Post a comment ( ...

Weekly Blog Kiosk 3/30/2008
Blue Heaven — ... Baseball plans to end the 68 year tradition of the Hall of Fame Game in Cooperstown after the 2008 season. Some fans have gotten together to try to save the game. Check out Save the Hall of Fame Game website. ...

Save The Hall of Fame Game!
A Red Sox Fan From Pinstripe Territory — Click here for info. I went to Cooperstown for it in 2005 and had a ball. Terrible job (and terrible excuse) by Selig to end this tradition.

Whatever Happened To The Hall of Fame Game?
GoatRiders of the Apocalypse — ... What is “it?” It is the Hall of Fame Game, a meaningless exhibition where the Cubs try to avoid injuring players who they need to compete for the pennant. Kristian Connolly disagrees, however: ...

The Ultimate Showdown
Rumors and Rants — ... a variety of minor league scrubs to fill out the lineups as the game progresses (though in the Padres case, they might stay on the roster. Oh snap!) Actually, I wasn't kidding about the Padres. Super-prospect Chase Headley is expected to get the call at third base for the Friars. Maybe he's got the stuff to be the next Sean Burroughs. Oh wait, that isn't a good thing. - There are apparently people who care about this game even more than we do. They have a web site dedicated to its preservation. - You'll be able to see this game in glorious ...

The Hall of Fame Game Ends Today
FanHouse — ... has started the site savethefamegame.com in hopes of doing exactly that, saving the Hall of Fame game, and Connelly isn't exactly thrilled with Cubs manager ...

Goodnight, Baseball Hall Of Fame Game [Baseball Hall Of Fame]
Deadspin — ... There have been some spirited attempts to keep the game alive, but it looks like this is it. It has been a while since anything particularly noteworthy has happened during the game — the ...

Not Meant To Be: Hall Of Fame Game Rained Out
Bleed Cubbie Blue — ... of the 20th. To ignore that heritage is denying and destroying our history, which, unfortunately, is something that we do far too often in this strip-malled, big-boxed nation. There's an old saw that asks, "What's the difference between England and America?" To which the response is, "In England they think 100 miles is a long way, and in America they think 100 years is a long time." That's undeniably true. Playing this game is, inconvenience aside, a nod to our history. A group called Save The Fame Game would like to see the game saved, perhaps by making it a ...

Final Hall of Fame Game Gets Rained Out
FanHouse — ... who is leading a one-man effort to save the Hall of Fame game. Play it at the end of Spring Training between two teams who are going to be starting the regular season in the northeast anyway. No, it's not exactly the same thing as before but it keeps the tradition alive and assures that the (fictional) birthplace of baseball gets a game with major league teams every year. ...

Thunderstorms Strike Out Final Hall of Fame Game
SPORTSbyBROOKS — ... of silence for Tim Russert , the NBC political host & Hall of Fame board member who died suddenly last Friday. MLB says ticket holders are entitled to full refunds. Or maybe they can get more by putting their unused stubs up on eBay. So, is this really the end of the Hall of Fame Game? Not if one determined fan can help it: Cooperstown native Kristian Connolly drew the loudest cheers from the crowd along the parade route. Connolly was helping tote a giant banner emblazoned with Savethefamegame.com , the Web site he created to spur a grassroots effort to convince Major ...

Rain Spoils Opportunity for Five Wizards
Baseball in Fort Wayne — ... Despite tremendous support from fans and enthusiasts, this year’s game was to mark an end of a tradition that dated back to 1940, when the Cubs defeated the Boston Red Sox, 10-9. Scheduling problems during recent years have resulted in the decision to end of the annual series that paired two Major League clubs in the traditional birthplace of baseball. ...

Daily Dump: CWS Hottest Wife, Song Girls Ranked 5th, WSOP Murder Suspect? And Marisa Miller On Cover
Busted Coverage: Booze, Ladies And Football — ... Baseball Hall of Fame game was not played yesterday due to storms. It’s a shame the people of Cooperstown didn’t get one final look at professional players on Doubleday Field. We’ve been to this game and there might not be a better setting for baseball. We’ll miss the Home Run Derby where hitters would pelt houses with bombs and kids would run through the neighborhoods chasing balls landing in yards. It’s pretty damn sad traditions such as this are fading away. Today’s ...

People Who Don’t Agree with Me are Idiots, Round 128: The Hall of Fame Game
Hire Jim Essian — ... If it wasn’t funny enough that some people were actually in an uproar that Sweet Uncle Lou wasn’t thrilled about dragging his best-in-baseball team to a small town in New York to play a meaningless game for no good reason, then it just got funnier. There is at least one person on this planet who (1) actually cares about the Hall of Fame Game, and (2) cares enough that he actually pays for and maintains (read: wrote one article for) a website in support of the game. Wow. If you don’t mind, I’m going to deconstruct his “18 ...

Primer Dugout 6-17-2008 (and not so random link of the day)
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog — ... —The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Tuesday, June 17, 2008 Primer Dugout 6-17-2008 (and not so random link of the day) The Hall of Fame Game won’t be the same. ...

Save the Hall of Fame Game
Dugout Diary by Joe Boesch — Save the Hall of Fame Game                                                Contact: ...

HOF Game: Saved or Not?
Dugout Diary by Joe Boesch — ... alive ... and have an open discussion about options for retaining Major League Baseball's participation in the Hall of Fame Game, as it has been since 1940." Full text of SaveTheFameGame.com's three letters to the commissioner, as well as the prior two responses from Mr. Selig, can be found in the "Press Releases" or "Letters" sections of the SaveTheFameGame.com. -- Save the Hall of Fame Game! www.SaveTheFameGame.com