The Hall of Fame’s haul from last night
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This press release from the Hall of Fame:
Yankee Stadium History Coming to Cooperstown
Hall of Fame Receives Spikes, Bat From Final Regular-Season Game –
(COOPERSTOWN, NY) – The last regular-season baseball game at Yankee Stadium is now a part of history. But that history will remain alive forever at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
Following the New York Yankees’ 7-3 victory over the Orioles on Sunday night, the Hall of Fame received several artifacts generously donated by the players. These items include: the spikes worn by Yankee catcher Jose Molina during the final game; the bat Johnny Damon used for his three-run home run on Sunday night; a bat used by Derek Jeter on the final homestand; and Jeter’s spikes from the game when he passed Lou Gehrig on the Yankee Stadium all-time hit list.
Those artifacts will join dozens of other Yankee Stadium treasures at the Hall of Fame, including lockers of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio; two turnstiles and a ticket booth; 12 box seats from behind home plate; a chair used by former Postmaster General James A. Farley on the first base side; and a bat rack.
The new artifacts will be put on display this fall after they are officially accessioned into the Museum archives. The Yankees begin play in a new stadium in the Bronx in 2009.
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Chad Jennings
Sam Borden
Josh Thomson
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Jose Molina in the HoF. Awesome.
Pete — The Jim Farley touch is nice. When I was a kid, and Memorial Day was always held on May 30, the Yankees always had a Memorial Day doubleheader. My parents would take me and a few friends up to see the games (after watching the parade — itself a huge treat with real tanks and military bands and contingents from the Service Academies).
May 30 was also Jim Farley’s birthday, and he would always be at the game. The Yankees would always wish him a Happy Birthday on the scoreboard. I don’t remember if Bob Sheppard would also announce it, but I do remember Mr. Farley standing up in his seat and waving to the crowd as well as I remember Mickey Mantle and some of the others hitting during those games.
It was just one of those things that made you feel special as a Yankee fan during the mid and late 1960’s, when things weren’t going so well on the field.