For a man who played the game of baseball so boldly, emphatically gunning down foes at second base, defiantly denying home plate to whoever came down his path, Ivan Rodriguez was anything but confident on the night before the greatest phone call of his life.
"To be honest with you," Pudge confessed Wednesday night, "I haven’t slept in three days."
When the Baseball Hall of Fame calls, you cry, we were reminded Wednesday. Pitcher John Smoltz, who got the news of his election in 2015, says it is a phone call he will remember for the rest of his life.