This weekend Andre Dawson, Whitey Herzog and Doug Harvey were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. What a refreshing class, three men beyond reproach.
Andre Dawson was an excellent outfielder with teh Montreal Expos and later the Chicago Cubs. He accomplished 438 home runs and 2,774 hits and earned multiple Gold Gloves for work in the field. Long respected as being a hard worker, Dawson was most appreciated in Chicago where he was the catalyst for period of Cub emergence.
Whitey Herzog was a manager that I came to enjoy during his time with the Kansas City Royals, during the seventies he built a club that was perennially in the playoffs and stocked with home grown talent. His teams had great fielding players like Frank White, Amos Otis, Willie McGee and Ozzie Smith. He loved to field and run, winning a World Series in St Louis.
I'll repeat that it was refreshing to see a class group of men, untainted by steroids, attitude or money grubbing enter the Hall.
With the induction of Andre Dawson, I hold hope for Dale Murphy. Both outfielders have similar numbers for home runs, Silver Sluggers and Gold Gloves. Murphy got two MVP's. In the eighties you couldn't run on either of them.
Bruce would have like this class.
Link to the AJC page, and AP article by John Kekis.
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