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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Joe Mauer closed out Sunday’s National Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony with 27 words that summarized the experience for he and his fellow honorees. “To stand here today and say that I am now a small part of baseball history is a statement that
will never fully sink in for me,” Mauer said. Humility, a bit of disbelief and a connection between baseball’s past and present were the underlying themes for Mauer, Todd Helton, Adrian Beltre and Jim Leyland, all of whom were officially
inducted into the Hall of Fame at the Clark Sports Center in this bucolic upstate town. Mauer and Beltre were elected by the Baseball Writers Association of America in their first year on the ballot while Helton earned enshrinement in his sixth year of eligibility. Leyland was elected by the Contemporary Baseball Era committee last December. “Just standing back there,
waiting to go up on to the stage, the guys are so kind, they all came by and offered me advice (saying), ‘Don’t worry about it, don’t be nervous, you got this,’” Helton said at a post-ceremony press conference. “And for me, that was the beginning of feeling like I belong.
But we have a players-only dinner tonight and I’ll probably feel like I belong after that.” Helton, who hit .316 with 369 homers in a 17-year career spent entirely with the Colorado Rockies, recalled growing up a fan of Hall of Famers Jim Kaat and Rod Carew because his late
father, Jerry, played minor league ball with the Twins. He also drew chuckles in the first speech of the afternoon when he said he’s still recognized around the University of Tennessee, his alma mater, for his brief stint backing up Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning on the football team.
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