Henderson will be joined in the Class of 2009 by former Boston Red Sox slugger Jim Rice, who was elected in his 15th and final year of eligibility.
Who can forget the image of Jim Rice running out of the dugout to help the little boy hit by a Dave Stapleton line drive? Rice's accomplishments on the field were more than sufficient to earn him admission to the pantheon of baseball's giants. Jim Rice was, nay, still is, a giant off the field as well.
Huzzah, good sir, huzzah.
That is all.
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I'm surprised - and pleased - to see this. It took them long enough that I thought it wouldn't happen at all.
It sure took long enough... sigh... I quit watching baseball after 94, other than Cal Ripkin's last game. I don't even know who is playing anymore, and frankly I don't care.
As I said on Bruces site, the first fly ball I ever caught at a major league game was from Rice.
Toward the end of his career he was damn near blind I swear, but he deserves to be in cooperstown.
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