EDITORIAL
WHAT IF? Hosting MLB Event In
Plaque Gallery Gets Wheels Turning
The idea was to bring fans to Cooperstown. What about taking Cooperstown to the fans?
In the Age of COVID, the second sentence is a more intriguing one.
And it played out this week with the Baseball Writers’ Association of America’s annual announcement of the Induction Class of 2021.
While it turned out there was no one to announce this year, the MLB Network spent the afternoon transmitting the Hall’s various exhibits and attractions to a national audience.
The last few years, Hall of Fame presidents, first Jeff Idelson and, lately, Tim Mead, have been announcing classes from a sterile studio in Secaucus, N.J.
How much more of an impact comes from staging the event in the cathedral-like Hall of Plaques, sanctum santorum of America’s Pastime?
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