Even more important to me than the Chicago Cubs this weekend was the fact that an icon was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame:
Saturday morning, on the steps in front of the Hall of Fame Library, the Baseball Hall of Fame celebrated the 25th anniversary of that baseball episode, “Homer at the Bat.”
It was, admittedly, a little bit out of character for the usually staid Hall of Fame. The vibe in Cooperstown is usually of timelessness, a deep connection to the past, the ghosts of the Babe and Satchel and the Big Train cheerfully hovering.