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How a hellish trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame turned into a heavenly experience

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — It was the Road Trip From Hell. Until we got to heaven. Baseball heaven.

One of the, ahem, perks of social media is that it lets you take your whining to the masses. So it was that many people were following along with Ryan Divish and I last Thursday in our almost comical adventures trying to get to Cooperstown for Ken Griffey Jr.’s induction ceremony.

As one friend wrote on Facebook, “Making it to the Hall of Fame is one of the hardest achievements in sports. You’re proving it.