Baseball Hall of Fame
Burkett was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1946. The Wheeling native became the first West Virginian elected to the Hall of Fame.
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Famous quotes containing the words baseball, hall and/or fame:
“I don’t like comparisons with football. Baseball is an entirely different game. You can watch a tight, well-played football game, but it isn’t exciting if half the stadium is empty. The violence on the field must bounce off a lot of people. But you can go to a ball park on a quiet Tuesday afternoon with only a few thousand people in the place and thoroughly enjoy a one-sided game. Baseball has an aesthetic, intellectual appeal found in no other team sport.”
—Bowie Kuhn (b. 1926)
“I was afraid the waking arm would break
From the loose earth and rub against his eyes
A fist of trees, and the whole country tremble
In the exultant labor of his rise;”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)
“Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)