If you're a baseball fan and you live in New York City and you have never been to the Baseball Hall of Fame Museum, or to a Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony, you still might have a chance to do so.
Latino Sports is organizing its third trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony in 16 years and the main reason for this trip is, Pedro Martinez. Martinez will be one of the players inducted along with Craig Biggio, Randy Johnson and John Smoltz.
Latino Sports began a tradition of attending the baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cooperstown, New York when a Latino baseball player got inducted over a decade ago. It began with Orlando Cepeda in 1999 when we joined a campaign to get him inducted after many years of eligibility, during which he was bypassed after his marijuana conviction following retirement.
Many of us felt that regardless of that incident, Cepeda belonged in the Hall of Fame. We feel the same today for Pete Rose. Whatever a player does off the field short of a violent, or horrendous act should not tarnish his achievement in what they did while they were playing. As such, Latino Sports took up the cause to help promote the campaign to get Orlando Cepeda in the prestigious hall of the baseball immortals.
The campaign was successful and as a result, we organized a bus trip for the many Puerto Ricans, Latinos and other baseball fans from New York who wanted to be part of that historic moment.
Orlando Cepeda was visibly touched by the number of his countrymen and women that he saw that day in Cooperstown, waving the flag of his beloved island of Puerto Rico. Those of us that attended also felt that bond and as a result, we decided that we would do that every time another Latino gets inducted. Thus in 2011, we again organized a trip to Cooperstown for Roberto Alomar, who was skipped on his first attempt to enter the HOF. And it was not because of his incredible career, but seemingly for his infamous spitting incident. Again, Latino Sports was involved in promoting Alomar and explaining why he needed to be in the HOF and again, we attended when he was inducted in 2011.
Now in 2015 we have the pleasure of organizing a trip for the second Dominican, Pedro Martinez to be inducted.
Our bus is almost full and with eight days left for our Sunday July 26 trip we still have 10 available seats on our bus. So if you want to be part of history moment visit our page and get yourself an exclusive seat in baseball history.