Playing the custom made guitar modeled after a Louisville Slugger made for him after he released his mid-80's baseball anthem Centerfield, John Fogerty got to perform the song live in Cooperstown, NY before a number of the baseball players he idolized growing up Sunday (7/25).  After doing the song, which has been played at the opening of the annual Baseball Hall Of Fame induction ceremonies over the past several years, Fogerty donated the one-of-a-kind instrument to the baseball shrine, where it join's 2010 inductees Andre Dawson, manager Whitey Herzog, umpire Doug Harvey, broadcaster Jon Miller and baseball writer Bill Madden.  That the guitar was able to be played at all is a minor miracle.  It spent days submerged in the aftermath of the spring flood in Nashville that Fogerty said claimed all of his guitars. (story) He told those gathered under threatening skies in the beautiful countryside of Central New York that the guitar was the only instrument of his salvaged from the flood.  He noted that the restoration still left the guitar looking more weathered than it had before being damaged, which is fitting for an instrument that will share display space with well worn equipment from famous moments in the history of the game he continues to love. 
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