Save the Hall of Fame Game

Save the Hall of Fame Game                                                Contact:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Selig Is Asked to Meet with SaveTheFameGame.com in Cooperstown Next Month

COOPERSTOWN, NY (June 20, 2008) -- The SaveTheFameGame.com campaign today sent a two-page letter to Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig to request a meeting while the commissioner is in Cooperstown next month for the Hall of Fame's Induction ceremony. The Hall of Fame's Induction Weekend is July 25-28.

In the letter, which was both mailed and faxed to the commissioner's Milwaukee office, SaveTheFameGame.com creator and Cooperstown native Kristian Connolly asks Mr. Selig for "the opportunity to discuss with you the passion that exists for keeping a great American and baseball tradition alive, share some of the sentiment that is out there with regard to the choice that the league and the players union made in deciding to end it, and have an open discussion about options for retaining Major League Baseball's participation in the Hall of Fame Game, as it has been since 1940."

Full text of the letter is copied below, and includes a poem also sent to the commissioner that was written and sent to SaveTheFameGame.com by baseball fan Dennis Segrue. The poem mimics Ernest Thayer's famous baseball poem "Casey at the Bat", and has the Hall of Fame Game, Cooperstown and Commissioner Selig as its topic.

Earlier this week, SaveTheFameGame.com was in Cooperstown for 2008 Hall of Fame Game festivities, including the Cooperstown Game Day Parade, and its efforts have helped result in an average of nearly 100 emailed letters per day going to Commissioner Selig, MLB president Bob Dupuy, Players Association head Don Fehr and Hall of Fame president Jeff Idelson over the past week, all asking them to reverse the decision to end the annual Hall of Fame Game after 2008.