The Gil Hodges Award at @QBC14!!! Awesome….
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DECEMBER 6, 2013
THE GIL HODGES UNFORGETTABLE FIRE AWARD TO BE PRESENTED AT THE 2014 QUEENS BASEBALL CONVENTION
CONVENTION TO BE HELD AT MCFADDEN’S CITI FIELD ON JANUARY 18th, 2014
The Queens Baseball Convention announced today that it is proud to present The Gil Hodges Unforgettable Fire Award as a highlight of its daylong festivities.
The QBC is scheduled to take place at McFadden’s Citi Field on Saturday, January 18th.
The Gil Hodges Unforgettable Fire Award will be presented annually by the QBC to a special figure in our team’s history whose memory will always warm our hearts, brighten our spirits and light our way.
Greg Prince, co-author of the blog Faith and Fear in Flushing and one of the organizers of the award program said, “With all due respect to the others who have held the job, when we think of ‘the manager of the Mets,’ our ideal remains Gil Hodges, both for who he was and what he did, and how that lives on for us as Mets fans.”
The goal of the award, according to Prince, is to keep Gil’s legacy aglow so even those who don’t remember him first-hand “understand what it means to have somebody like that set our team on its path and realize that all the best elements of sportsmanship and humanity can come together in a Mets uniform and a Mets clubhouse. Gil’s life reminds us that some things and some people transcend mere championships — though let’s not overlook the championship, still the signature achievement of this franchise.”
Gil Hodges (1924-1972) was a standout major league first baseman beloved by fans of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Mets, the latter of whom he led to the championship of the baseball world in 1969.The Queens Baseball Convention thanks the members of the Hodges family for their blessing of this award.
Tickets to the Queens Baseball Convention are $35 for adults, $10 for children 12 and under and can be purchased at QueensBaseballConvention.com
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This is way cool and nice job by Greg Prince putting this one together…and super thanks to Gil Junior for signing off on this one.
I believe Gil should be in the Hall of Fame and will do whatever I can to make noise about that.
If you’d like to be part of this amazing day, tickets can be purchased below. (And don’t forget Ron Darling and Ed Kranepool are coming.)
I love a Gil Hodges award, but doesn’t the term “unforgettable fire” refer to the use of the atomic bomb on Japan?
I did not know that…I personally associate it with a U2 album and definitely the goal of the award is not to offend. Should we change it? It’s a “made up” name with good intentions.
From the Wikipedia page on the U2 album “The Unforgettable Fire”:
“…The title is a reference to “The Unforgettable Fire”—an art exhibit about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The band saw the exhibit in November 1983 in Japan while on the War Tour…”