'42' Official Trailer [HD]: The Real Life Story Of Jackie Robinson, Base...

I'm really looking forward to watching this movie about Jackie Robinson.

The movie is schedule for release in April 2013.

Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle...Costanza?

I love watching TV.

I love watching baseball on TV.

The two came together brilliantly on the comedy Seinfeld.

Jerry Seinfeld, a real life New York Mets fan, incorporated his love of the Mets by wearing his Mets cap on the show, talking about the Mets infield on the NY Subway...with a naked guy, and becoming friends with Mets 1st Baseman Keith Hernandez.




This is my favorite Seinfeld episode ever, where Jerry meets the former Mets player, and the reaction he gets from Kramer and Newman.

Another classic baseball themed Seinfeld has Elaine, from Baltimore, getting thrown out of a game at Yankee Stadium because she wore her Orioles cap in the owners box seats.

Some of the best of all the baseball Seinfeld shows involved George Costanza, from his inability of get Keith Hernandez to go to the unemployment office to help him, to George's years as the Yankees assistant to the travelling secretary.

I'm a sports fan member over at the web site Fan IQ.com and once wrote this quiz on baseball and Seinfeld.

Today Seinfeld was honored as the #1 Comedy of All-Time on TV, a poll done by a 60 Minuets/Vanity Fair Magazine poll.

Over at JoeSportsFan.com they have compiled a list of every New York connected baseball person to appear or be mentioned on Seinfeld.

Thanks to Jimmy Trania and his daily Hot Clicks post for the link to Joe Sports fan and for continuing to write about the world of sports and it's unusual side every day on SI.com.

These guys should be in the baseball Hall of Fame

Every year over at Baseball Past and Present.com Graham Womack does a project on the best players NOT in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.





I have participated again this year.

We vote for 50 BEST players NOT in the Hall of Fame, and then YES, or NO, for the Hall of Fame.



Here's my ballot of the players I listed on my ballot with a "Y" for induction.



Yes. I voted for my hero, Bill Freehan, and some other deserving Detroit Tigers, like Jack Morris.

I also didn't think Denny McLain or Willie Horton belonged in the HOF, and they played for the Tigers, so there.

My YES votes are...

Bill Freehan
Dale Murphy
Tim Raines
Jack Morris
Allan Trammell
Lou Whitaker
Mickey Lolich
Joe Torre
Don Mattingly
Harold Baines
Jeff Bagwell
Charlie Bennett
Curt Flood
Gil Hodges
"Shoeless" Joe Jackso
Thurman Munson
Mike Piazza
Fernando Valenzuela
Roger Maris
Orel Hershiser
Curt Schilling
Jim Kaat
Pepper Martin
Edgar Martinez
Lefty O'Doul
Buck O'Neil
Steve Garvey
Fred Lynn
Marty Marion
Minnie Minoso
Sadahara Oh

There are only 31 names listed above.

I listed 19 other ballplayers in the 50 BEST not in the HOF, but I don't believe they belong in the HOF.

While I believe that Pete Rose, baseball's All-Time leader in hits, Barry Bonds, baseball's All-Time leader in home runs, Roger Clemens, Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire, and Raphael Palmiero were great players, they do not, in my opinion, deserve to be in baseball's greatest shrine.

The steroid era in baseball has distorted hallowed records, and in the case of Rose, he violated baseball's highest rule, that of honor.

Before you ask me about Joe Jackson, I believe that while Jackson knew about the 1919 Black Sox fix, he played as hard as he could, in every at bat, in every play, and in every game.

Pete Rose would be in the HOF had he not, as the Manager of the Cincinnati Reds, bet on baseball, and his own team.

As for Sadahara Oh, he's the greatest player in Japanese baseball history, at least until Ichiro Suzuki retires, and I've always believed he deserved to be in the baseball HOF.

That's my list,

Please feel free to let me know your thoughts.

Play Ball!