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Detroit Tiger Alan Trammell's Hall of Fame speech: Full transcript

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Former Detroit Tigers shortstop Alan Trammell was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday in Cooperstown, N.Y. This is his induction speech:

Thank you, Jane (Forbes Clark) and commissioner (Rob Manfred). I thank you Jeff, John, Whitney and the entire Hall of Fame staff for making this entire experience memorable.

When people ask me where were you when you first received your phone call from the Hall of Fame, I tell them Jane called while I was standing in the aisle deplaning a flight from the winter meetings.