As baseball bestows praise on its greatest this weekend during the annual Hall of Fame Induction ceremony, sports fans are getting ready for some football!
While Bruce Sutter, the first pitcher elected into the Hall of fame who never started a game, is inducted Sunday, it's already day three of NFL Training Camp.
What this means is that if you are still in baseball mode but are planning to join a Fantasy Football League this season, you better start strategizing. Fantasty Football fanatics intent on winning the office pool are already stressing over which running back and quarterback to pick if they don't get the ones they want.
If you do decide to join a league this season, you must realize how time consuming the fantasy is. The basis of the game is that you have to pick a team of players from all the teams. You get points depening on how each player does. In order to score for your team, you could potentially end up cheering against the team you've loved since you were three. Of course during the season, you can make trades, but realize you will have to keep up with every player on every team for every game. This means you won't have time to actually sit and watch any of the games nor go to one. You'll be too busy running back and forth to your computer or clicking through the channels to see how your players and your teammates players are doing.
Fantasy Baseball also exists. But imagine keeping track of every player on every team for every game in baseball! For example, the football Giants play around 17 regular season games per season. Compare that to the baseball Yankees' 163! There are more baseball games in a month than during football's entire season.
For those of you who would like to see the baseball season wrapped up before the Football rage kicks in, here are a few highlights from the Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Weekend 2006.
Along with Bruce Sutter, 17 electees from the pre-Negro league and Negro league were also inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Gene Elston, a radio announcer for the Houston Astros, was named the 2006 recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award.
Tracy Ringolsby was elected the winner of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award. This award is for sports writing.
There was also a special screening of a movie coming out in September. It's called Everyone's Hero. Christopher Reeve was the original director on this animated film about a kid who believes he can make a difference if he just hangs in there despite overwhelming odds. This is said to have been Reeve's dream project.
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