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[jacklamabe65]

I just received a framed certificate from The National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York proclaiming that the original SoSH "Win it For" thread has been formally inducted into their permanent collection. Two years ago, the original thread was printed out and sent to the museum. The staff there then spent considerable time deciding whether to admit the thread as part of its permanent collection. On October 19th, the Board of Trustees of the Hall formally accepted the thread; it is now permanent part of the Rare Books Collection of the Museum.

They will attempt to put the collection on public display during the anniversary years - 2029, 2054, 2079, 2104, and beyond.

Considering that the vast amount of writing came from you folks, its nice to know that a piece of you will now be in Cooperstown forever.

The proclamation reads:

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. in Cooperstown, New York

Certificate of Donation

The Board of Directors of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum gratefully accepts and appreciates your generous gift of the "Win it For" thread from the Sons of Sam Horn website, October 2004.

October 19, 2006

Dale Petroskey
President

Even Tonto might be pleased!

http://abner.basebal...f sam horn&2,,3

Edited by jacklamabe65, 25 October 2006 - 07:34 PM.

[Buck Showalter]

Congrats to the originator of the historic thread!

[PedroKsBambino]

That's pretty cool, Shaun!

So that's the original thread, i.e. with Tonto and everything else, now in the actual Hall of Fame huh...

[Lanternjaw]

Thats terrific... a thread on SoSH is officially a piece of baseball history.

Neat stuff.

[staz]

Nice.

Perhaps the 2104 bash should be in Cooperstown. BSL? Can you organize? Thanks.

- Great Grandsons of Sam Horn

[AlNipper49]

moving to main forum...

[jacklamabe65]

The original Tonto is on there - and every page is in color in a manuscript-bound book that the Hall will rebind whenever necessary.

Thanks to Art Martone and Leigh Montville who both helped with the Introduction to the bound edition.

[AusTexSoxFan]

That is truly outstanding. Nice job everyone! I appreciate the HOF recognizing the pure unadulterated passion that was on that thread. I know when I'll be visiting Cooperstown....

[Maalox]

That is actually kind of cool.

[Arock78]

It's astounding to me that my grandfather's memory is connected to the 2004 World Series by the Baseball Hall of Fame. Just, holy shit!

[Ted Cox 4 president]

That's pretty sweet.

No--check that.

That's VERY sweet!

Kudos, all.

[Worst Trade Evah]

Now I'm really sorry I never came up with a cool 'Win it for' angle. I guess I have my lame-o family to blame -- I'm the only real Red Sox fan in it.

[Harry Agganis]

My mother, who figured promiently in my entry, just passed away last Wednesday. When I first saw this thread I actually reached for the phone but I am sure that someplace somewhere she too is smiling to be in the HOF.

[Clears Cleaver]

Very impressive. Congrats. It gives all another reason to go to Cooperstown

[Morassofnegativity]

That's cool. Especially for Tonto.

[gcapalbo]

It was pretty clear that what happened in 2004 had a an impact in New England that resonated deeply throughout multiple generations.

'Win it For' deserves this treatment, because it captured the feeling that this wasn't so much about baseball, or a sports victory as it was about family. All the years we agonized and cheered through the baseball season with our parents, or a favorite relative-- watching and waiting for that day to arrive when the Hancock Tower flashed Red & Blue, and a million joyous people would walk across the Longfellow Bridge together (including that guy in my avatar).

Congrats to you Shaun, and to the rest of us (who's going to be the first one to put 'HOF' in their sig?).

This is pretty cool stuff.

[Fratboy]

It's about time I was enshrined in the Hall of Fame.

Seriously, this is a very cool thing. I just wish I'd done a better job with my piece, since all I did was submit a bunch of bullet points.

[William Robertson]

Very cool. Thanks for your efforts.

[DLew On Roids]

It's about time I was enshrined in the Hall of Fame.

Seriously, this is a very cool thing. I just wish I'd done a better job with my piece, since all I did was submit a bunch of bullet points.

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Yeah, nice work on that PowerPoint.

My daughter is the first member of my family in the Hall of Fame? Damn, it's one generation too late. That's what happens when you can't hit a curveball.

[kartvelo]

Do we still have a link to the original thread?

[RoDaddy]

Thanks for the great news, Shaun. Congrats to all who were a part of this.

Dana Crawford
HOF 06

[BosoxBob]

Do we still have a link to the original thread?

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Here is the original "Win It For" thread in the Boneyard on the old board.

By the way, does anybody know if any threads from NYYFans.com have made it to the Hall of Fame?

[Yaz4Ever]

Very cool, Shaun. When posting in that thread I, like most everyone else I'm sure, had no idea how many people would actually see/read it. Because so many of us spoke from the heart about more than the game itself, the thread was able to transcend this board and take on a life of itself.

Newspaper columns, national news recognition, book format which raised money for charity, and now the Hall of Fame.

Whodda thunk it??

Now if only Shaun could learn to use a scanner, we could all print the certificate for ourselves to hang in our Mom's basement

[Sille Skrub]

Sincere congrats to Tonto (and to you, Shaun).

Where can we send the nominations for the P&G representative?

Sons of Sam Horn HOF06

[NJ Fan]

I knew that thread had legs!

Congrats, Shaun, and to all who contributed to that most memorable thread. Re-reading it, there are a lot of names I haven't seen in quite awhile.

[DJnVa]

If you don't think I'm not putting

--Baseball Hall of Fame, 2006

on my resume, well, you aren't paying attention.

Edited by DJnVa, 25 October 2006 - 05:47 PM.

[Spacemans Bong]

I'm so telling chicks I'm in the Hall of Fame.

[RedOctober3829]

This is exactly the recognition that this thread deserves. All of the thoughts in the thread are real and from the heart. Red Sox Nation is different than any other fans in the world. I was one of the lurkers that were privileged enough to have posted and I want to thank CR67 for posting my thoughts. I looked through it for the first time since 2004 and the same emotions I felt that day are still there. many of us lurkers are now members and I can't speak for all, but I am very honored to be a member of the best message board on the Internet. Shaun, you will always be remembered around these parts. Now, when is Clemens coming back to Boston?

Edit: Is it ironic that Shaun gets this message 20 years to the date of Game 6 of the 1986 World Series?

Edited by RedOctober3829, 25 October 2006 - 05:53 PM.

[jacklamabe65]

Thanks for all the PM's. The heroes here were people like SpikeMyOwen, Al Nipper, Stiffy, Felix Mantilla, SilleScrub, and a host of other members who willingly posted lurkers' messages and kept the thread going.

To answer the most asked question from you all, yes, the HOF has the entire thread except for a few hours after the seventh game of the Yankees series. Fortunately, I printed out the thread before the much more deadly Ezeboard virus attack that occurred in the summer of 2005. Thus, the vast amount of posts are still there, many more than what are left on the archived thread that still exists. Happily, because I also cut and pasted several posts for Leigh Montville after Game & of the ALCS, those are also included in the HOF edition as well. 975 posts remained intact in the end.

You might also be interested to know that copies are in the process of being bound for both the Boston Public Library and the Massachusetts Historical Society. The Red Sox gratefully accepted a copy earlier this fall and placed it in the team library. John Henry and Curt Schilling also received copies as well.

Edited by jacklamabe65, 25 October 2006 - 06:35 PM.

[visalia oak]

That thread is still a lot of fun to read. Thanks again Jack. Next time I'm thinking about starting a "Win It In Spite Of ..." thread. Good times.

visalia oak
HOF 2006

[IU Sox Fan5]

Congrats to all involved and especially Shaun. More importantly, I made the Hall before Rose

[Maureen Adele]

I was reading my copy of the book just last night, watching the World Series with out the Red Sox, seemed fitting. As always I turned into a blithering idiot, the same reason I could not post in the original threads. So what if I'm late, thank you Nana, Sister Rita and Daddy. My son was laughing at his Mom crying over baseball again, and yes everyone there is crying in baseball.

There was a lesson to be learned through all of this. It's not the games or the teams, but the memories made watching them.

[Tudor Fever]

Wow. This is an excellent surprise.

Shaun, thanks again for starting the thread, Thanks also to you and the others who provided the open mike to lurkers (including me at that point.)

[Quintana Daydream]

Thanks, Shaun, now you've got me reading this all over again and I'm blubbering mess....but hey, what an amazing feat...

[fletcherpost]

I'd just like to say thanks to Felix Mantilla for posting for me and to Jack for his initial post that touched the hearts of so many and inspired what is now a HOF fame thread - that's pretty awesome really.

I just read the old thread again and it was like stepping back in time. Emotionally draining, but in a good way. And it's pretty cool cos in about 7 hours I'll be meeting my first fellow SOSH member to show her and her mum the sights and smells and pubs of Edinburgh.

It gets lonely being a Red Sox fan in Scotland.

[Fenway Frank]

Simply amazing.

Congrats to all.

[sfip]

My son was laughing at his Mom crying over baseball again, and yes everyone there is crying in baseball.

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I wonder how many people remember that you were planning for the parade a couple of months in advance. <emoticon>

[Rick Burlesons Yam Bag]

Oy Vey.

The baseball HoF needs to focus.

[RingoOSU]

Oy Vey.

The baseball HoF needs to focus.

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I know, first Bruce Sutter, now this.

[Greg Blosser]

Jesus Christ - what a thread. Time has only enhanced its impact. I was bawling all over again before the end of page 1 and managed to make it through 9 pages before I needed a break and clicked on CNN.com.

What greeted me there?

Goddamn, I miss Red Sox baseball right now.

Happy Anniversary Week to all of you - it'll never be as good as it was two years ago, but I'm willing to see how close it can get.

[Sille Skrub]

The heroes here were people like SpikeMyOwen, Al Nipper, Stiffy, Felix Mantilla, SilleScrub

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(rolling laughing ezboard emoticon)

Heroes of debauchery? This is the main board. Let's keep the comedy in the off-topic forum.

But seriously, will it be out on display for folks to peruse or will it only be carted out on those anniversaries? Will there be an armored guard on duty 24/7/365? I am going to petition the HOF to see if it can get the same security system as the Declaration of Independence.



SpikeMyOwen HOF06

[Pandemonium67]

Aren't they supposed to wait five years?

[SoxFanSince57]

Thanks Shaun.

When people read the thread in 100 years it will become the definitive narrative of the 2004 season for the Red Sox. When all the pictures fade to dull grey, this thread will serve as a testimonial to the caliber of fans in Red Sox Nation and the emotional depth of our love for the game.

As they say, it is a "no brainer" that the thread belongs in the HoF. Its power and passion speak volumes. IMO, it is now and forever "must reading" for anyone interested in knowing about the impact and magnitude of the team's WS victory.

Future Sox teams will win and lose, players will come and go, records will be made and broken, but the power and human spirit reflected in this thread will stand for as long as they play the game.

Players earned their WS rings. They will be passed down from generation to generation until only a few remain. The "Win it For" thread represents our little place in baseball immortality and along with other 2004 artifacts preserved by the HoF will remain as long as the institution. What a kick!

It was SoSH's finest hour.

Edited by SoxFanSince57, 26 October 2006 - 02:48 PM.

[LoweTek]

Congratulations Shaun.

The 'Win It For..." thread should be required reading for any player contemplating coming to Boston.

[Ted Cox 4 president]

While the memories are indelible, and always will be, reading the thread now makes it seem like a lot longer ago than just two years. I was struck by the yeoman service done by those SoSHers who received and then posted from all the lurkers. Well played, indeed. Good times!

[Clemente38]

Congrats Shaun,

You provided both the vision and the rudder for the "Win It For" thread. It is rare that someone steers such a clear course and then follows it through to assure its history.

I agree that it was SOSH's finest moment - contributions from many on multiple levels and resonating appreciation from everyone. Time for BSL to organize the trip to Cooperstown.

[AusTexSoxFan]

I think the thing that stands out the most for me when I go back and look at the Win It For thread is the fact that we remembered so many people in our lives that, win or lose, they always watched or followed the Sox. There's just a certain special devotion and it serves as a good reminder especially when a season can turn sour like this year's.
That will be really special to visit when I have kids and ultimately grandkids. Kudos to you Shaun!

[Saints Rest]

When people read the thread in 100 years it will become the definitive narrative of the 2006 season for the Red Sox. When all the pictures fade to dull grey, this thread will serve as a testimonial to the caliber of fans in Red Sox Nation and the emotional depth of our love for the game.

"Win It For" is the definitive narrative of the 2004 season.

"Potential 5th Starter Options" (answer: Crappy McCrapsalot) should be the definitive narrative for 2006.

[RedOctober3829]

"Win It For" is the definitive narrative of the 2004 season.

"Potential 5th Starter Options" (answer: Crappy McCrapsalot) should be the definitive narrative for 2006.

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The 2006 Narrative should be more like "Potential 4th, 5th Starter, Setup Men, Closer, RF, SS, 2B Options". 2004 was a very special season and one we might not see for a long time in the future.