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Join them there. Do it while you can. Do it while they can. The Hall of Fame on induction weekend is more than yellowed newspaper clippings and artifacts. It's a museum where you can meet, greet and breathe the same air as the featured exhibits, the men you grew up with, the heroes of your generation. How great is that? Other generations will have their time. This time is your time. Make the most of it. Cooperstown Corner: While most of the Hall of Famers acknowledge they have seen only clips of ESPN's "The Bronx is Burning," the size of the ears on John Turturo's Billy Martin elicits cackles from those who knew the late Yankee manager...Al Kaline, now 74, was the defending champion of the Players Golf Championship where he fashioned a nifty 67 at the 6,500-yard Leatherstocking Golf Course to wrest the title from Mike Schmidt...Wade Boggs won the Tournament's Long Drive contest...Guests at Hall Chairman Jane Clark's Friday night lakefront Gala included, CBS honcho Leslie Moonves, his wife Julie Chen, Wonder Woman Linda Carter and Julia Ruth Stevens, 90 year-old daughter of the Babe himself...Actor Richard Gere arrived on Saturday while John Travolta rolled in Sunday...The Hall's two best dancers may be Steve Carlton and Billy Williams...Jim Palmer was married Friday afternoon in a private ceremony...Doing a brisk storefront autograph business on Main Street were former Cy Young Award Winners Denny McLain and Vida Blue...This year's turnout of 53 Hall of Fame players, set an all-time high. The record attendance of an estimated 70,000 made the Clark Sports Complex lawn look like something out of Woodstock...The Gwynn contingent included his former Padres teammate Steve Garvey and Trader Jack Mc Keon, who as GM, insisted the Pad's draft Tony in 1981...Tony's daughter Anisha sang the national anthems of Canada and the US...and finally, spotted in the crowd Sunday was a Tee Shirt with the #9 and the words Defrost Ted. Frank Pace has produced nearly 500 episodes of network television, including Murphy Brown and Suddenly Susan. He is currently the Producer of the ABC Series George Lopez. He can be reached at
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