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Old 09-13-2004, 04:45 PM
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Posted By: Bruce Babcock


If anyone is planning a visit to the Hall of Fame, you will hear a recording I produced of a brass band playing "The Red Stockings March." It will be playing in the new-ish 19th century room.

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I originally made the recording for my friend Darryl Brock, author of "If I Never Get Back," a novel containing a unique fictionalized account of the 1869 Red Stockings. Darryl's other baseball novels include "Two in the Field" and "Havana Heat." (All three are available thru Amazon.) Darryl, a SABR member, uses the recording when lecturing about the research that went into his novel. He gave the recording to his friend Tom Schieber, a curator at the HOF, and Tom liked it well enough to incorporate it into the exhibit. There comes a day in every man's life when he realizes that he will never play major league baseball. For me, that day came in 1963. However, I am (sort of) in the Hall of Fame.