Achieving success in any sport doesn’t necessarily mean you are on the selection ballot for the Hall Of Fame, but rather about being involved in a sport you love and have a passion for.
Many individuals start to play at an early age then reach the level of the game they are only able to, but others venture on in various areas of sport.
Some turn to Coaching, some Manage and others venture into the area of Executive board members, be it local, Provincial or National.
You work hard with a selected group of individuals who are as passionate about the sport as you are, but as President and/or Commissioner you are the one in the spotlight.
You hang onto this position as long as possible, then when all is said and done it’s about retirement or so you think.
As much as you can do for Amateur sports others work in the world of Pro sports and if fortunate enough you get selected for the Hall of Fame.
Delta has the Sports Hall of Fame where recently more additions were added at a well attended banquet as covered on Delta TV.
Now we are hearing about the MLB and the recent selection for two individuals who have done much to grow the sport.
The former Commissioner of Major League Baseball Bud Selig and MLB executive John Schuerholz were recently elected into the baseball Hall of Fame.
Unknown to many outside the world of baseball the selections are made by the veterans committee at Oxon Hill, Md., prior to baseball’s winter meetings.
Both Selig and Schuerholz will be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York July 30,2017.
Selig, 82, served as commissioner from 1992 to 2015 and helped grow the game, but was also in charge during the steroid era that brought many records into question.
Selig and other baseball figures were called to Washington in 2005 for a Congressional hearing into performance enhancing drugs in the game.
Schuerholz helped build championship teams with the Kansas City Royals (1985) and Atlanta Braves (1995), becoming the first GM to win a World Series in both the American and National Leagues.
The inaugural class of inductees was in 1936 where MLB honour players, managers, umpires and executives.
Included in the 314 Hall of Famers are 217 former major league players, 30 executives, 35 Negro Leaguers, 22 managers and 10 umpires
They will become the 313 and 314 members in Cooperstown and it’s interesting to know that there are currently 71 living members of the Hall.
