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| Tom Giffen with Tom Moore, Mike Williams |
Former BJ sports editor Tom Giffen is among 14 who will be inducted
into the Greater Akron Baseball Hall of Fame during the August 10-12
celebration weekend.
While working in Ol’
Blue Walls in 1990, Tom purchased the Roy Hobbs baseball program and built it
into a nationwide home for thousands of players who never want to quit. In
addition to operating the business, Giffen often umpires, cares for the fields
and scores the games.
For 30 years Tom has
run the Roy Hobbs seniors baseball tournament in Fort Myers, Florida. BJ
newroom retiree Tom Moore and advertising retiree Mike Williams have helped Tom
with a tournament newsletter, among other duties.
Roy Hobbs is the fictional hero of Bernard Malamud's novel, “The
Natural,” and the movie starring Robert Redford as Hobbs.
Giffen’s mother, the
late Elsie Ream Giffen, was a Chicago publish house editor and Mineral Wells
(Texas) Independent newspaper editor. His father was Cecil Giffen.
Tom is married to
Ellen. He has a brother, Charles, in Smyrna, Tennessee.
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