What do the Hall of Famers say about the Hall of Fame?
“If you don’t feel an aura that’s almost spiritual when you walk through the Hall of Fame, then check tomorrow’s obituary: you’re in it.” — Don Sutton, 1998 “This is the greatest thing that ever happened to me in my lifetime. I have been fortunate enough to win World Championships, [coach] Cy Young award winners, MVPs, nine Rookies of the Year, All-Star Games. But they come and go. But the Hall of Fame is eternity. I feel that it won’t be too long [before] my mother will be shaking me and saying ‘Wake up, Tommy. It’s time to go to school.’ I am living a dream.” — Tommy Lasorda, 1997 “For me it’s the last beautiful flower in the perfect bouquet because the twenty years that I had as a professional athlete playing for those four wonderful teams and the twenty year period before my professional career began all came together for me in [my] induction in the Hall of Fame.” — Tom Seaver, 1992 “One of my first thoughts of being told of my election into the Hall of Fame was the nat
