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What a crazy idea, and wonder why nobody figured this out quite a while ago?
Steven Senne/Associated Press
The ball caught for the final
out of the 2004 World Series
will go to Cooperstown.
Let's Make a Deal: The Ball Goes to the Hall
Steven Senne/Associated Press
The ball caught for the final
out of the 2004 World Series
will go to Cooperstown.
Let's Make a Deal: The Ball Goes to the Hall
THE baseball has almost reached its final resting place.
A year and a half after Keith Foulke fielded Édgar Rentería's grounder and threw to Doug Mientkiewicz for the out that gave the Boston Red Sox their first World Series championship since 1918, the dispute over ownership of the baseball has been resolved.
Through an agreement reached by Mientkiewicz, the Red Sox, the players union and Major League Baseball, the baseball is going to the Hall of Fame.
When the Kansas City Royals were in New York recently, Mientkiewicz indicated that the most controversial baseball in recent times was headed to the Hall of Fame, and on Friday Michael Weiner, the union's general counsel, confirmed the agreement in principle.
Mientkiewicz, two teams removed from the Red Sox, would not say much when asked about the ball. "I've been told to keep it hush-hush, but that's the final destination — the Hall of Fame," he said.
A year and a half after Keith Foulke fielded Édgar Rentería's grounder and threw to Doug Mientkiewicz for the out that gave the Boston Red Sox their first World Series championship since 1918, the dispute over ownership of the baseball has been resolved.
Through an agreement reached by Mientkiewicz, the Red Sox, the players union and Major League Baseball, the baseball is going to the Hall of Fame.
When the Kansas City Royals were in New York recently, Mientkiewicz indicated that the most controversial baseball in recent times was headed to the Hall of Fame, and on Friday Michael Weiner, the union's general counsel, confirmed the agreement in principle.
Mientkiewicz, two teams removed from the Red Sox, would not say much when asked about the ball. "I've been told to keep it hush-hush, but that's the final destination — the Hall of Fame," he said.
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