Favorite Quote from the 2008 Hall of Fame Induction

"He was called a prude when he wouldn't let a woman into the naked men's World Series clubhouse, despite spending night after night in a hospital AIDS ward reading to dying gay men even before the dangers of that disease were fully understood."

Paul Degener
The son of the late former Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn

You know, I used to like Kuhn a lot as he the Commissioner during my younger years. There were times when I criticized him like everyone else. In all, I respected what he did for the game.

Yet, there were many things that I had no clue about Commissioner Kuhn. This was one of them.

That is what it takes to be enshrined in Cooperstown...taking baseball from beyond the diamond into every fan's hearts.

Thank you, Mr. Kuhn.