ARLINGTON -- The Rangers played in the 1999 Hall of Fame Game in Cooperstown, N.Y., and they were given a private tour of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum the night before.
Ivan Rodriguez remembers the night well.
"I saw the whole museum," Rodriguez said. "Believe me, to be honest, one of the things I said to my kids that night was, 'One day you guys are going to come here and see my plaque.' That's what I told my family."
That day should come in 2017. The '17 Hall of Fame ballot was released Monday, and Rodriguez is on there for the first time.