Apparently, it took receiving the highest individual honor in Major League Baseball to finally rattle the sure-handed former first baseman, widely considered the greatest player in Houston Astros history.
"This is unbelievable," he said during the Hall of Fame's formal news conference Thursday at the St. Regis hotel in Midtown Manhattan. "I don't even know what the [heck] I'm doing here. This is crazy."
Well, it's not that crazy. Bagwell logged 449 home runs and 1,529 RBIs during a long career with the Astros that began in 1991 and concluded with the club's only World Series appearance in 2005.