“Gil Hodges” is the name on the plaque that will hang in the museum’s hallowed halls forever. But it was really Gil Hodges’ Way that was being honored.
The chapter of Roger Kahn’s seminal baseball masterpiece “The Boys of Summer” devoted to Gil Hodges is titled simply, and appropriately: “One Who Stayed in Brooklyn.” Long after the Dodgers had fully abandoned the borough, even long after most aggrieved Dodgers fans had moved on, Hodges and his family stayed.
“When you think of it,” Irene Hodges, Gil’s daughter, had said Thursday, as she made her way from Brooklyn to Cooperstown, starting the long cruise up Route 17. “His was such a short life in so many ways. He passed away at 47 and he would be almost 100 now and yet people still respect him and love him — even though for 50 of those years he wasn’t around. I think that’s a pretty amazing feat for anyone.
Fourteen years earlier, on a team loaded with stars, it had been Hodges who made certain Next Year would finally arrive in Brooklyn. It was Hodges who drove in the only two runs in the Dodgers’ 2-0 win in Game 7, one on a single, one on a sac fly. It was Hodges in whose glove the final out settled at 3:43 p.m. on Oct. 1, 1955, securing the throw from Pee Wee Reese.When Hodges and his family returned to their two-story house, there were hundreds of Dodgers fans who’d gathered to greet them.
When Hodges flipped open the box, he found $700. Hodges may have been a young skipper. But even then his players didn’t want to disappoint.It was Father Herbert Raymond, a 44-year old parish priest at St.
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