* Let the chin-stroking begin

ESPN.com uses this language for its headline of the Associated Press story on the Petroskey resignation:

HOF president resigns amid ‘fiduciary’ questions

The reader will note the quote marks around fiduciary.

The Hall did not detail Petroskey’s actions. Spokesman Brad Horn said the executive committee believed they weren’t criminal and that he did not benefit personally from them.

Of course, if this was the Bizzaro world, (or an episode of Seinfeld), that remark would mean the opposite.

I kinda feel bad for Petroskey. You know people are going to raise an eyebrow when they read that.

On this day

Former Pirate second baseman Bill Mazeroski is elected by the Veterans’ Committee into the Hall of Fame along. His walk-off home run in the 1960 World Series is still ranked as one of the most dramatic moments in the game. (Thanks to NationalPastime.com.)

The Amazon Report:

Twin Killing: The Bill Mazeroski Story

Mini-Review: 100 Baseball Icons: A Century of Historic Baseball memorabilia

From Sportscollectorsdaily.com, a brief but fervent recommendation of photographer Terry Heffernan’s new project featuring items from the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Baseball as America exhibit comes to Philly

If you can’t come to the Hall of Fame, let the Hall of Fame come to you.

That’s the philosophy behind the traveling exhibit, Baseball As America, which features lots of memorabilia culled from the Cooperstown institution which gets a run at the National Convention Center in Philadelphia through May 11

I attended the collection in New York City in its first year. If the format is still the same, it’s divided into nine “innings” that chronologically follow the game. Well worth the trip.

Marvin Miller “outducted” by the Hall of Fame

John Helyar, author Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball, one of my favorite books on the business aspects of the national pastime, weighed in on the “outduction” of Marvin Miller in the latest Hall of Fame elections for executives, umpires, and managers.
In a Page2 column on ESPN.com, Helyar wrote:

The longtime leader of the Major League Baseball Players Association wasn’t just denied entry to the baseball Hall of Fame for the third time Sunday. He was subjected to a level of irony and cruelty no 90-year-old man should have to endure.

The Amazon Report: The Lords of the Realm