The Martinezes plan to spend Wednesday just like any other day. Edgar has a speaking engagement in the morning, then will return home and work out. His wife Holli will go to work as usual. Their two daughters will head off to school.
“I don’t plan to change anything,” Edgar said.
But it’s not just any other day. It’s one during which, just possibly, Edgar Martinez’s life would be changed forever by a phone call from Jack O’Connell, secretary-treasurer of the Baseball Writers Association of America. O’Connell is the one who informs new members of the Hall of Fame that they have earned entry into baseball’s most sacred club.