HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29 Showing ‘Angels In The Outfield’ With Cooperstown Film Society FILM SOCIETY – 7 p.m. Cooperstown film society presents ‘Angels In The Outfield’ (1994) with special guest Tim Mead, President of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and long time Angel executive to discuss his time with the team, making of the movie. Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Visit www.facebook.com/FilmSocCoop/…
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MEAD TELLS FANS AT Q&A Leading Hall Of Fame Is About ‘We,’ Not ‘I’ By JENNIFER HILL • Special to AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – In a Q&A this morning, Community Day at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Cooperstown’s two other museums, the Hall’s new president Tim Mead told of his humble beginnings. He was born in Greece, and adopted, along with his sister, when he was 6 months old. He joined the Los Angeles (then Anaheim) Angels as an intern…
SATURDAY, HALL ADMISSION FREE Hall Of Fame President Mead Plans Q&A With Community COOPERSTOWN – The Baseball Hall of Fame’s new president, Tim Mead, plans a Q&A with visitors at 10 a.m. tomorrow (Saturday) during Community Day, where local fans will be admitted for free, (a $23 value for adults with drivers’ license or other ID). Mead , who succeeded Jeff Idelson at the end of the 2019 Induction, spent a career at the Los Angeles Angels, the last decade…
CELEBRITY TOURS PATHFINDER Hall Of Famer Lee Smith Returns For Golf Tourney COOPERSTOWN – Class of 2019 Hall of Famer Lee Smith has returned this week to the scene of his Induction as celebrity host for the Pathfinder Village-Baseball Hall of Fame Golf Invitational, which begins today at the Leatherstocking Golf Course. The former Chicago Cub will join 23 amateur foursomes on the 18th to support a golf event that raises scholarship funds for Pathfinder Village, the residential community in…
Tim Mead New HoF President HAIL TO THE CHIEF! By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Tim Mead is anything if not approachable. Walking by that display board of standings in front of the Hall of Fame the other day, Glendaly Garcia of Hartford, Conn., called out to the new president of Baseball’s Mecca: “Can you take our photo?” Unhesitatingly, he did, then posed with the family, now thrilled at meeting the man who holds one of the…
COLUMN VIEW FROM THE GAME It’s All We Need To Know: Home Plate 17 Inches Wide Editor’s Note: Tim Mead, incoming Baseball Hall of Fame president, cited John Scolinos, baseball coach at his alma mater, Cal Poly Pomona, as a lifelong inspiration, particularly Scolinos’ famous speech “17 Inches.” Chris Sperry, who published sperrybaseballlife.com, heard Scolinos deliver a version in 1996 at the American Baseball Coaches Association in Nashville, and wrote this reminiscence in 1916 in his “Baseball Thoughts” column. By…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Teamwork: A Way Of Life Tim Mead’s Now Bringing Here L.A. Angels Communications/VP To Succeed Idelson After Induction By JIM KEVLIN • www.AllOTSEGO.com Exclusive COOPERSTOWN – Tim Mead, who will become the seventh president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame following this year’s Induction on July 21, has been a team player in the front office at the Los Angeles Angels for four decades. But for the Angels’ vice president/communications, team playing didn’t start there. When young…
Angels Executive Succeeds Idelson As HoF President Tim Mead, 61, Hall’s Seventh Leader COOPERSTOWN – Tim Mead, 61, 22-year vice president/communications for the Los Angeles Angels, has been named president of the Baseball Hall of Fame, Hall board Chairman Jane Forbes Clark announced a few minutes ago. “The Board of Directors is very pleased that Tim has accepted the position of President of the Hall of Fame,” said Clark. “Tim is deeply respected throughout the baseball industry, among players, executives…