White Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf tried to amuse the other 15 members of the Today’s Game Era committee in his attempt to get Harold Baines elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
“If you do vote him in,” Reinsdorf quipped about the soft-spoken Baines, “it will be a very short speech.”
Baines was voted into the Hall of Fame on Sunday, when he received the minimum 12 votes necessary for induction by the committee.
Reinsdorf said fellow committee member Steve Hirdt of the Elias Sports Bureau said that perhaps Baines would let out everything he held in for all those years and give a 45-minute speech.