[Vision2020] I finally made it to Cooperstown!

[Joe Campbell]

Very cool, Scott! Joe Gordon was of course a Yankee. Don't know much  
about his MVP season but beating out a triple crown winner it had to  
be great.

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On Jul 27, 2009, at 7:33 PM, Scott Dredge <scooterd408 at hotmail.com>  
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Idaho State Representative Erik Simpson (R-Idaho Falls) very  
> generously - and surprisingly for once without any quid pro quo -  
> gave me one ticket to sit in the very front row at the 2009 Major  
> League Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony yesterday in  
> Cooperstown, NY, where his late grandfather - Yankees 2nd baseman  
> Joe Gordon - was being inducted into the Hall along with Boston Red  
> Sox Great Jim Rice and Oakland Athletic / Yankee / Blue Jay /  
> Padre / Angel / Met / Mariner / Red Sox / Dodger Great Rickey  
> Henderson.  Back in my college days when Erik first told me that his  
> grandfather was an MVP in the Big Leagues (1942 when he was elected  
> MVP over Ted Williams who had a Triple Crown season), my off-the- 
> cuff response was something to the effect of 'Maybe your grandfather  
> played in the major leagues, but there was no way he was an MVP'.   
> In my defense, Erik had a nasty habit back then of routinely  
> stretching the truth - if not flat out completely fabricating  
> grandiose stories - and these were the days before all the world's  
> knowledge was quickly available Googling and Wiki'ing at my  
> fingertips.
>
> I'm heading off to Seattle tomorrow and I'll be at the Mariners /  
> Jays game Wednesday afternoon - although with no connections this  
> time - I'm sitting all the way back in row 32 behind the plate.  I  
> hope the Jays trade their ace and probable starter Roy Halladay  
> prior to that game, otherwise there are likely to be a lot of silent  
> M's bats.
>
> -Scott
>
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