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Bert Blyleven , a prankster at heart, takes tour of Baseball Hall as he prepares for induction

It didn't take long for Bert Blyleven to feel at home in the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. As soon as he sat down in the Grandstand Theater, the notorious prankster was in high gear."I gave up a home run over there," Blyleven said Tuesday as he stared at a wall of the theater, a replica of Chicago's old Comiskey Park. "The first time I pitched there I had a shutout going and Ed Herrmann hit a home run and the scoreboard went off. It scared the heck out of me. I liked it so much I gave up home runs (there) over the years just to make it go off."This was the third trip to Cooperstown for the former right-hander, who won World Series titles with the Pittsburgh Pirates (1979) Minnesota Twins (1987), and it was like none other. It was a preparatory stroll through history ahead of his long-awaited induction in July. Blyleven, who will go in with Pat Gillick and Roberto Alomar , was elected on his 14th try in January and still hasn't come down from Cloud Nine."There's still disbelief," Bl...

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