There is, and will continue to be, plenty of coverage of Tim Russert’s untimely death. Every network and article reports that Russert was an avid baseball fan; Russert was more than that.
Russert served on the Baseball Hall of Fame’s Board of Directors and was a member of the 5-person Executive Board. He’s been removed from the Hall’s website already - I haven’t a clue why - but a screenshot of the cached page shows his old bio:
Baseball, not only politics, will miss Tim Russert.
We also lost Eliot Asinof this week. Asinof was himself a talented, young player who turned to writing about the game. Most famous for “Eight Men Out,” Asinof’s book about the 1919 Black Sox scandal was just a drop in the bucket of a prolific career in literature and scholarship. Ron Kaplan’s Baseball Bookshelf relays two Tim Wiles pieces that address Asinof’s remarkable life and contributions to the game.
The National Baseball Hall of fame opened its doors on June 12, 1939.
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