SAN DIEGO, Calif. — One day, Lou Whitaker will get his due.
One day, Jim Leyland will see the great player he managed in the minor leagues join the rest of the greatest players in baseball history. One day, Alan Trammell will have his double-play partner in the Baseball Hall of Fame with him.
“It will happen,” Trammell said Monday afternoon. “It’s just a matter of when.”
It did not happen on Sunday evening, when Whitaker failed to receive election by the Hall of Fame’s Modern Baseball Era committee — a collection of 16 former players, executives and baseball historians.