Philadelphia Phillies icon Jimmy Rollins doesn’t know whether or not he’ll ultimately be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. What he does know, however, is that throughout the course of a lifetime of playing baseball, reaching Cooperstown was a goal of his.
Just a couple months shy of his 40th birthday, Rollins appeared on Baseball Stories with Jayson Stark. While the two acknowledged that it’s difficult for a former player to evaluate his own Hall of Fame case, Rollins explained to Stark why he was never afraid to discuss his goal of reaching the Hall of Fame:
“[Some people are afraid to say they want to reach the Hall of Fame] Just like some people are afraid to say they are the team to beat.