Walter O’Mally joins the Hall of Fame

Today Walter O’Malley, former owner of the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers, will be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY, in a ceremony that some say is “long overdue.”

Naturally there are many tributes appearing in ink (or pixels) but I saw two that I couldn’t keep to myself. The first one is from the Los Angeles Times, who talked to Billy DeLury, who was a mere office boy when the Dodgers won the pennant in 1955. O’Malley walked up to him and asked for his size. DeLury didn’t know what size the boss had in mind, but it turns out he was asking for DeLury’s ring size. Yes, the office boy got a World Series ring, just for being a part of the office staff for the Brooklyn Dodgers that year.

The other is from one of the coaches O’Malley hired, Tommy Lasorda. Tommy sheds light on a part of the move to Los Angeles fifty years ago that I suspect many of us may not be aware of.

For even more information about this incredible owner you can visit the website one of his sons created to celebrate him.

Of course O’Malley isn’t the only person being inducted today. The list of inductees also includes Rich “Goose” Gossage, Dick Williams, Barney Dreyfuss, Bowie Kuhn and Billy Southworth.

For complete coverage on today’s induction ceremony visit MLB.com’s Hall of Fame area as well as the National Baseball Hall of Fame website. You can see the ceremony at 1:30 PM (Eastern Time) on MLB.com and ESPN Classic (their site doesn’t recognize Flash 10 yet). ESPN2 will air the ceremony tomorrow.

ADDENDUM: You can also catch the Hall of Fame induction ceremony on BaseballChannel.tv.

Peng’s posts for Sunday, 27 July

I ended up missing a thing or two I meant to post yesterday because when I first saw them I hadn’t flagged them as To Blog. Luckily I found a few things I wanted to blog this morning so this isn’t just a “catch up” post.

• Dave Morley: Doing and Saying for Non-Developers. I like supporting software that I really like (like Mac4Lin) , but since I can’t code I wondered how I could best contribute other than helping in the support forum thread. Dave has some ideas for others looking for ways that non-devs can support your favorite software.
• Tom Dryer: Upgrade to the Latest Compiz Fusion Release. Earlier this month I mentioned the new desktop sphere in Compiz Fusion. If you don’t want to use Ubuntu Tweak to update Compiz Fusion (I understand you may not) Tom has a killer post on his already great Tombuntu site showing you how you, too, can play with the desktop cylinder and sphere. Have you bookmarked his site or subscribed to his RSS feed yet? You haven’t? What’s taking you so long? :p
• Siegfried Gevatter: Writing a command and control application with voice command. Let’s admit it. Most of us Trek fans have long waited for the day that we can control our computers with our voice. It looks like that day may be today.

I do have one other thing to post, but since it’s not a tech/Ubuntu post I’ll give it a post of it’s own so it doesn’t go to Planet Ubuntu Users.