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Wednesday - April 11, 2007

Coach Bibb Falk to be inducted into the College Baseball Hall of Fame

Coach Bibb Falk's family is sure to be proud of the fact that he'll be inducted into the College Baseball Hall of Fame in early July. It's good news for Texas baseball. So, now UT will have 3 of the first 21 inductees. Coach Falk joins Coach Cliff Gustafson and Brooks Kieschnick.

You won't read about Coach Gus or Brooks if you click on that link above, though. That article, written by Alan Trubow of the Austin American-Statesman ends with a list of former inductees. There were 10 people inducted last year in the inaugural class. Alan Trubow lists 6 of them: Dave Winfield, Rod Dedeaux, Robin Ventura, Skip Bertman, Will Clark and Ron Fraser. Why do you suppose he'd list them in an article about Coach Falk and not list the two from UT? Don't you find that odd? Is it because Alan Trubow doesn't know anything about UT baseball? If not, why did he get the assignment? If he was the only one available, why didn't he bother to do a bit of research? All he had to do was look at the Hall of Fame's coverage of last year's ceremony to see very clearly that there were two former Longhorns already in the Hall. I'm guessing it's just the usual: he doesn't know anything about UT baseball. I think he only moved to Austin a couple of years ago. Did he see a full list of 10 names and just pick out the 6 he knew? Or did he copy that list of 6 from someone else's list of notable inductees? So sad. And, yet...completely unsurprising for the AAS. Sigh...

Posted by Joanna at 8:04 PM