earlier today in cooperstown, the baseball hall of fame welcomed andre dawson and whitey herzog. also enshrined was john miller, winner of the frick award. he talk about visiting candlestick park as a kid and moreen fat waited with the broadcasters than the players. >> this is the moment when the change of my life occurred. there is a batter at the indicate, and the broadcaster says, curve ball, low and outside, ball, two, and then grabbed a big handful of during thought they were french fries, and he put them in this mouth, and while he is which youing, the pitch comes, and he said without missing a boat, fast ball outside, ball three. then he grabbed a cup of whatever. took a big pull on the cup, and as a ten-year-old i sat there and said, that is the life for me. >> mike: what a great story, and only john can tell it. congratulations. the a's took two out of three from in the white sox, and dallas brayden wins his first game since throwing a perfect game on may 9th. bottom two a's down 1-0. oakland goes up 2-1. later in the frame, another two-out hit. this one courtesy of suzu

manager whitey herzog joined them. >> so, i turned and said what is it, em.he said, dad, i have to go potty. and i jumped up, grabbed her, ran her down to the bathroom, put her in a stall and i said, okay. now don't touch anything and don't leave i'll be right back. so i ran back to the booth and the runner is now at first base. but i don't know how he got there. it was a three ball two strike count when i left. i turned to the engineer and he is reading a robert parker novel. i said, hey, how did he get on first base, he said oh, there's a guy on first. >> i'm not sure what he would have said, there is a guy on first base. >>> in less than two decades, the brickyard has become one of the most prestigious races on the nascar slate. it's tough to run when you don't have a tire. that was the case for robbie gordon. he was in 36th place. 26 laps to go, juan pablo montoya gets four new tires. everybody else got 2. he dropped to 7th place and never recovered. jimmy mcmurray benefits and becomes the third driver to win daytona and the brickyard in the same year. >>

andre dawson, whitey herzog, and doug harvey inducted yesterday into cooperstown. >>> alex rodriguez will be there soon. one away from his 600th home run, yanks and royals in the bronx, a-rod hit by a high fastball in the eighth. off his left hand, a-rod goes down and has to leave the game, but the yankees win it 12-6. rodriguez says he'll be back in the lineup chasing number 600 tonight in cleveland. and that's your look at sports on "early today." i'm mario solis. >>> indicate gosselin and the kids are going camping with who? your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, something borrowed, something blue and something incredibly stinky. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back this monday morning. yesterday was a hot day in vegas. tell you what, this morning you're struggling. it's 94, we're still very hot. the pavement and everything else in the city holds in the heat. we're one of the warmest spots in the nation. phoenix at 89. cooler at a few spots on the coast, inland areas nice and mild. that's the case as a lot of clouds lingering in the coa

. >>> major league hall of fame welcomed andre dawson as well as former cardinal manager whitey herzoghe hayward native spoke about one of his first baseball memories visiting candlestick park as a kid and being more in fat waited with the broadcast -- in fa fatuated. >> the broadcaster says there is a curveball low and outside. ball two. he grabbed a big hand of i thought it was french fries and jammed them into his mouth and while he was chewing the next pitch comes in and says without missing a beat a fastball outside, ball three. then he grabbed a full of whatever and took a big pull on the cup and as a 10-year-old i sat there and said that is the life for me. i just wanted a job where i could eat french fries while i was working and now here i am today. thank you very much. thank you. >>> the a's took a series from the white sox with today's win. they will need them. they head to texas who just picked up cliff lee. the american league west just got tougher. actor philipp seymour hoffman in the house. playing art howe in the upcoming money ball movie. bottom two, a's down 1-0. a tw

the baseball hall of fame inducted its newest honorees today, including andre dawson, manager whitey herzogand for the first time, a musician. john fogerty was honored for writing "center field," which is played at every induction ceremony. >>> and still ahead, comic books under pressure. will this childhood staple staple in the digital age? survive in the digital age? there's oil out there we've got to capture. my job is to hunt it down. i'm fred lemond, and i'm in charge of bp's efforts to remove oil from these waters. bp has taken full responsibility for the cleanup and that includes keeping you informed. every morning, over 50 spotter planes and helicopters take off and search for the oil. we use satellite images, infrared and thermal photography to map and target the oil. then, the boats go to work. almost 6,000 vessels. these are thousands of local shrimp and fishing boats organized into task forces and strike teams. plus, specialized skimmers from around the world. we've skimmed over 27 million gallons of oil/water mixture and removed millions more with other methods. we've set out m

umpire doug harvey on the right, next to him, andre dawson and on the far left manager whitey herzog.former rookie of the year, mvp, one of just three major leaguers with 400 homeruns, and 300 stolen bases this. year's in ducties would not be that big a deal in the bay area, except for the fact that john miller received the ford award presented for major contributions to baseball broadcasting. miller joins other giant broadcasters, russ hodges, lon simmons and lindsey nelson in cooper'stown. miller and simmons worked in the booth together for a stretch. >> lon called me when i got this award and he said to me, congratulations. by the way, can you get me a phone number and name up there in cooper'stown, i have a lot of people outraged about this who want to see if they can get it overturned. hey, i'm a kid from hayward. i just want add job where i could eat french fries while i was working! now here i am today. thank you very much. >>> no surprises in the ceremonial final stage of the tour de france, as alberto conned dorr won the tour for the third time in the last four years. what wa