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Andre Dawson was recently elected to the baseball Hall of Fame. He wanted to be inducted as a Chicago Cub. Instead, the HoF decided he would enter as a Montreal Expo. And that’s just not right.
If a player has performed at such a high level as to be enshrined in Cooperstown, he has earned the right to choose how he wishes to be depicted. However, I think there should be some general guidelines:
- The player must have played at least five years with the team
- The player must have reached some major milestone with the team (3000th hit, 500th HR, 300th win, MVP Award, etc)
Those two rules would ensure a player doesn’t just randomly select one team because he was unhappy with ownership/management of another team or something petty like that. But it does allow a player to have the final say, which makes perfect sense. Of course, it’s the baseball Hall of Fame, so sense isn’t always perfect and sometimes, like in this case, isn’t even common.
-Jake Stevens
THERE IT IS!
The Hall of Fame took away a players right to choose his cap after persistent rumors/reports that multi-team stars were routinely offered money to pick a particular team’s cap. With so many future hall of famers being multi-team stars and considering the greed of ballplayers this seems like a good idea.
Also, the HOF does more for Dawson than he does for them. The hall would easily survive the absence of a lower rung hall of famer like Dawson. As such he should just say “thanks” and accept the decision with dignity which, in fact, is just what he did.
Agreed, Dawson should just be happy that he got chosen to be part the HoF. The heck with choosing your cap, didn’t Dawson spend 10 years with the now defunct Expos anyway? Which would make it the bulk of his career…huh?
The Yankees should will find a way to give the man a little something for choosing a Yankee cap. Wouldn’t that be a kick?