“I’m grateful for this grand gesture,” Rolen said. A year earlier, he got 63.2% of the vote. He received 297 votes (76.3%) from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America in January. Rolen was the only player to receive more than the 75% of the votes needed to qualify for induction. He was joined by Fred McGriff, elected unanimously by the Contemporary Baseball Era Players Committee in December after falling off the writers’ ballot in 2020. It took six tries, but Rolen’s parents, Ed and Linda, finally got to see their son earn his bronze Hall of Fame plaque. “Seeing Mom and Dad walk to their seats from my position at third base was a feeling never topped again in my 17 years,” Rolen said during his 16-minute acceptance speech. Louis Cardinals or even during his outstanding first full season in 1997 with the Philadelphia Phillies, which earned him unanimous National League Rookie of the Year honors.įor Rolen, one of two players inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday, that honor was reserved for an unexpected moment with his parents after he was called up for his first major league game in 1996. (AP) - The greatest moment of Scott Rolen’s 17-year career didn’t come during his 2006 World Series run with the St.
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