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Fogerty Plays Centerfield in Cooperstown

The Baseball Hall Of Fame exhibition game that put MLB teams on a field in Cooperstown, NY to play a game during indiction weekend went the way of double headers and teams traveling by train a few years ago.  It seemed inevitable to fans that could tell many modern day players preferred the day off to traveling to the upstate New York village that is home to the Hall. For all but a few, that game would be their only chance to be honored in Cooperstown, a reality that won't sink in for most coddled, brash players until the spikes are hung up and the endorsements are long gone.  The Hall replaced the exhibition game with one featuring retired major leaguers.  The caliber of play is not as high, but the veterans are there because they want to be not because they have to be, and that makes all the difference in the world to real fans of the game. This summer's induction ceremony will honor Andre Dawson, one of the great modern era center fielders.   On hand to participate in the ceremony will be someone who appreciates the game, its history and center fielders in particular, John FogertyFogerty, who says he always had '...a very special feeling about center field as a kid' and likened his absence from music during the difficult period after Creedence Clearwater Revival broke up to the feeling of watching from the bench, drew on that when he wrote the song Centerfield, his big baseball hit of the mid 1980's.  July 25 Fogerty will be in Cooperstown to play the song in tribute to Dawson.
NYTimes.com
 
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