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Morristown Magazine 27 sent him to their Class D affilia- te team in Morristown, Tenn. With the 17-year-old Hubbs and another future major lea- guer named Ossie Chavarria, the Morristown team – playing at Sherwood Park, less than 100 yards from the front doors of the Sherwood Commons strip mall that is home to the mu- seum – took the league title. Hubbs was advanced quickly through the minors and in 1962 was named National League Rookie of the Year and earned the Gold Glove – the first per- son in the history of the game to win the Gold Glove and Roo- kie of the Year in the same year. That season he set re- cords for consecutive chances and without an error at second base. Hubbs had a good sophomore season with the Cubs, but tra- gedy struck in early 1964 when he died in a plane crash. Today, Hubbs memory is kept alive in the Hall of Fame in Coo- perstown, which has the glove he used to set the records but also in the GroveWood Baseball Museum, so very close to where he played his first season of pro ball, In addition to a picture of Hu- bbs, Pack has a ticket stub from the last home game in which he got a hit in Chicago and some of Among several game used World Series balls in the collection is this one from the 1921 Yankees-Giants Series