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Article: HONORED TRADITION
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- Sun Publications (IL)
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- November 19, 1999
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Three years ago -- Nov. 1, 1996, to be exact -- more than 700 people gathered at the Hawthorne Park Race Track to celebrate.
They came for the inaugural Inductee Awards Presentation and Dinner for the newly formed 16-inch Softball Hall of Fame, an institution that was the culmination of more than three years of work by Lisle resident Al Maag.
"It's Cooperstown for amateurs," Maag said.
"Jack Brickhouse said to me, `I just came from the professional Chicago Sports Hall of Fame last week.
They have sponsors, everything.
Everything you guys want, they have.
They had 400 people.
How in the hell did you get 700 people? Because it's Chicago. To be honored as a hall-of-famer is the biggest ...