BREAKING NEWS!

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Posted By: Adam J. Moraine

Ron Santo and Gil Hodges were the top vote getters by the Veterans Committee for hall Of Fame enshrinement.HOWEVER, neither Santo or Hodges were enshrined. BOTH players received 52 votes of a possible 60 votes needed for "The Call To The Hall". OR percentage wise, BOTH players received 65% of the voting nominations. Info. is courtesy of the Baseball Hall Of Fame web site.
www.baseballhalloffame.org

Best Regards,

Adam J. Moraine

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Posted By: john/z28jd

Adam, this voting was announced on March 2nd

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Posted By: leon

He didn't say "when" it was breaking....I think the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor too (always a smartass in the crowd).....later

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Posted By: john/z28jd

He shouldve labeled it Late Breaking News then Leon and used one more exclamation point.

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Posted By: jay behrens

The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor? Guess we will have round up all the Asian collectors and confiscate their collections :-p

Quan, we are stopping at your place first
Jay

I like to sit outside drink beer and yell at people. If I did this at home I would be arrested, so I go to baseball games and fit right in.

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Posted By: Adam J. Moraine

OOOPPPSSS !!!!!!!!! SORRY GUYS! I DID NOT KNOW THE ANNOUNCEMENT HAD ALREADY BEEN MADE. I SURE FEEL STUPID,NOW! THE INFO. I CLICKED ON MUST HAVE BEEN AN OLD LINK OR THREAD TOPIC!

BEST REGARDS,

ADAM J. MORAINE

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Posted By: DJ

You would think there was something on the news about these Japanese attack but all I see is some 'ass-clown' in Georgia refusing to get off a crane.

Adam, it was very amusing. I clicked with excitement. A major find of some sorts? --not a Mr. X kind of a find, but a legitimate find. A little old lady in Iowa with a thousand or so gem mint Ramley's including the rare, never before seen Cy Young?

Oh well...

DJ

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Posted By: Mark

Michael Bolton is on a crane?

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Posted By: DJ

Mark,

HA HA

DJ

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

Starffin..pitched his whole life in Japan. Incarcerated as an enemy alien during WW2. That was in JAPAN. (I know American citizens were put in internment camps as Japanese enemy aliens in WW2, but I was talking about Japan).

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Posted By: tbob

Who else remembers Bluto (John Belushi) giving that stirring argument about "did we give up when the Germans attacked Pearl Harbor?"
If Animal House isn't on the list of 100 Greatest Movies, something's wrong. Yeah, yeah, I love Casablanca and Citizen Kane and It's a Wonderful Life too but AH was a classic.

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Posted By: Julie

A friend who is a great film buff said "It helps to think of it as a comedy."

Actually, I liked "The Blues Brothers" best of Belushi's films, not "Animal House."

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Posted By: DJ

Hate Citizen Kane? Say It Ain't So Jules!

I took several film Classes in College and there is nothing worse than having to wake up Monday morning at 7 A.M and have to stay awake to D.W Griffith's 'Birth Of A Nation' (four hour silent movie) or 'Gone With The Wind'.

Orson Welles is pure genius. 'Touch of Genuis', 'Lady Of Shanghai' and 'Merchant Of Venice'!

I'm not much on 'Animal House', it's okay but where ya gonna put 'Fletch Lives' on that list then? I would put 'Blues Brothers' ahead of 'Animal House'.

I'm currently oggling a T217 and watching a William Wyler movie. I really must get a life.

DJ

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Posted By: Brian Koyama

My grandfather was one of the first Americans thrown in jail at the outset of WWII just for being "of Japanese decent". They took his collection of N162's and T207's and burned them in the suitcase they were stored in

Ok, well not really (the part of the N162/T207's), but he did have his collection of baseball memorabilia taken away. My mom told me he had a couple of small baseball cards that he kept in his wallet at the time he was jailed. They turned out to be T206's (commons) with pinholes in them. I still have them. Don't know how he originally got them (he was born in 1899), but they are the pride of my collection.

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Posted By: Hal Lewis

Brian:

How does the story end? Did you grandfather eventually get released (hopefully)? Did you ever know him? Did he give you the cards personally and get you started in card collecting?

Let us know!!

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Posted By: Max Weder

Brian

I'm not sure if you've heard of the Vancouver Ashahi, a team of Japanese Canadian amateur baseball players, who excelled in Vancouver leagues for a number of years from 1914 to 1941 and internment. A great book, Asahi by Pat Adachi has their story with a tremendous number of old sepia photos. There is also a video called Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story. The Ashahi have been inducted into both the BC Sports Hall of Fame and the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.


If you have any further interest in this subject, please drop me an email

Max

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Posted By: jay behrens

I just watched D W Griffith"s Intolerance. My girlfriend thought I was joking when I told her it was 3.5 hours long. Metropolis, Nasferatu and Doctor Caligarie's Cabinet are favorite silent films along with anything by Chaplin or Keaton.

Current films, my favorites are films like Pulp Fiction, Fight Club and Snatch. The Airplane movies are classics as is Animal House.

Jay

I like to sit outside drink beer and yell at people. If I did this at home I would be arrested, so I go to baseball games and fit right in.

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Posted By: Brian Koyama

Man, you guys/gals are awesome on this board. I drool over all of your collections, especially seeing Julies rare/oddball Japanese type cards. Simply amazing!

Yes Hal, my grandfather was finally released after the war (I still have the newspaper clipping that showed his arrest on 2/21/42) Here's a link to the clipping (he's the one way in the back of the picture with the dark hair and glasses): http://photobucket.com/albums/v223/bghkoyama/ .
Most of my relatives were either shipped off or born in the concentration camps throughout the U.S. I could write a book on their lives growing up there.
I was lucky enough to know my grandfather (who was also a Grand Champion Kendo fighter/teacher) before he passed many years ago.
The T206's were the only cards that he had (Brooklyn Dodgers-yahoo!!), but he did tell me that he used to have a small album of tobacco cards that were confiscated. Boy, I wondered what they might look like today...
My dad actually got me started in collecting. He used to sneak into the LA Coliseum and old LA Wrigly field to watch the Dodgers and Angels play.

Max, I'll drop an email so I could get more info on the Japanese/Canadian BB team-sounds like a good story to look into!!

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Posted By: Pcelli60

Funny, I thought this was supposed to be about two wonderful ballplayers getting just a little bit closer to the hall...Perhaps these two will make it after all..Really all this 'other' stuff keeps me lurking most of the time.