Videos of Thomas Boswell’s induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame

The great writer Thomas Boswell was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame this weekend.

Thomas Boswell’s speech in Cooperstown: ‘Thanks, baseball’ (Text of the speech)

I saw Boswell speak and sign books at Politics and Prose in Washington in 1989 when his book The Heart of the Order was released. He asked people if they were Orioles or Senators fans and would write an appropriate inscription – see mine below.

As I recall a woman said the book was for her nephew, a New York Mets fan. Boswell said something like “What do you want me to say? Good luck to obnoxious, arrogant Mets?”