Scott Rolen and Fred McGriff delivered beautiful, impassioned induction speeches Sunday during their Baseball Hall of Fame inductions.
McGriff, 59, the youngest son of a TV repair shop owner and school teacher , talked about being cut from his high-school team as a sophomore. He could have pouted. He could have lashed out at his coach, Pop Cuesta. He could have blamed everyone but himself.
He went from hitting .148 without a homer in his first minor-league season with the New York Yankees to becoming one of the most prolific power hitters in Major League Baseball history with 493 homers. He became the first player in baseball history to hit at least 30 homers with five different teams.
McGriff, who wound up having nearly the entire 50-member Hall of Fame class shaking his hand in an unprecedented greeting when introduced, thanked Magadan, who attended the ceremony. He thanked Hall of Famer Wade Boggs, who gave him the advice to look for fastballs on every single pitch instead of breaking balls. He thanked Yankees minor-league coach Ed Napoleon, who had him working on his fielding at 8 a.m. every day. He thanked Cito Gaston, his first hitting coach in Toronto.
“Seeing Mom and Dad walk to their seats from my position at third base,’’ Rolen said, “was a feeling never topped again my 17 years.”
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