Sabathia’s induction speech was a tribute to the women who raised him, nurtured him and supported him along the journey. He focused mainly on the two most prominent women in his life -- his mother, Margie, and his wife, Amber. “It’s been a long road from Vallejo, Calif.,” Sabathia said. “And I wouldn’t have made it all this way without the women redirecting me when I got lost.” (Photo credit: New York Yankees)

The drive from northern New Jersey to Cooperstown, N.Y., offers myriad options. The quickest route is usually the New York Thruway north to I-88 west, but interstate highways tend to be boring. Weaving one’s way up through Sullivan County and the Catskill Mountains is a much more scenic drive, and only marginally longer. Rambling past the bucolic pastures and trout-stocked rivers of

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