One of my first memories as a child watching Tim Raines play on the South Side came in the form of a question my father posed aloud: “How does he fit in his uniform?”
Watch baseball from more than a decade ago and the players look comparatively wiry, slow and unimposing; but not Raines. Just like a stud prospect looks a world apart physically from players, Raines stood out from fellow big leaguers. Even if you hadn’t heard about Montreal days before, it looked like there was a new superstar in town.
After he learned he had been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on Wednesday in his 10th and final year on the ballot, Raines admitted during a conference call that his.