It took 58 years for the Angels to witness the Hall of Fame induction of a player wearing their cap, and when that moment finally came on a sun-splashed Sunday afternoon in baseball’s ancestral home, it lasted about as long as one of the notoriously free-swinging Vladimir Guerrero’s at-bats.
After accepting his plaque and posing for pictures with Commissioner Rob Manfred and Hall of Fame executives Jane Forbes Clark and Jeff Idelson, Guerrero strode to the lectern wearing a light-blue suit and bright-red tie, the colors of the Montreal Expos and Angels, the teams with which he spent most of his 16-year career.