Griffey said the decision to flash the backward hat came from Hall of Famer Frank Thomas after he arrived at the Clark Sports Center site on Sunday morning. He liked the idea so much that he called his wife, Melissa, and had her get a cap from his youngest son, Tevin.
"Frank was like, 'You've got to do it, you've got to do it,'" Griffey said. "You've got to end it like that."
And why not? Griffey always has had a flair for the dramatic and he understood well the impact of being bestowed baseball's ultimate honor with 50 fellow Hall of Famers sitting behind on the stage.