To truly change baseball, he wants to own a team.
An Ace Seeks a New Title: Dave Stewart has been a star player, a coach, an agent and an executive. BROOKLYN METS PROFESSIONAL
An Outlier Who Wants to Fit In : She tried her hand at college softball, but Kelsie Whitmore is where she belongs: Playing professional baseball in Staten Island. Throw some ground balls, it’s more democratic.” Strikeouts are boring! Besides that, they’re fascist. Season “Relax, all right? Don't try to strike everybody out. “Oh, Gil? My Gil?” Irene recalled her mother saying. Joan Hodges, 96, isn’t always able to assimilate these days, but she perked up immediately at the phone call. When Jane Forbes Clark, chair of the Hall of Fame’s board, and Josh Rawitch, its president, phoned the Hodges family home in Brooklyn in December to deliver the news of Gil’s induction, it was his daughter Irene who picked up and placed the phone next to her mother. The cross-pollination of the Dodgers and the Mets would become one of baseball’s constants. Decades later, the bricks and angles of Citi Field would evoke the spirit of the old ballpark at Sullivan Place. Hearts would break, tears would be shed, but after Ebbets Field met the wrecking ball, the Mets soon emerged. With those city-shaking moves, the Brooklyn Dodgers’ lone World Series title in 1955 would become frozen in time. Neither man, at that point, could have dreamed that just seven years later, Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley, along with his New York Giants counterpart, Horace Stoneham, would pack up their teams and bring Major League Baseball to California. Scully, 94, was a rookie Brooklyn Dodgers broadcaster in April 1950 when he first met Hodges.
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