Larkin achieves highest honour

Today Barry Larkin climbed the last 10 feet and has reached the summit in baseball having been inducted into the Hall of Fame.  Having garnered 86 % of the vote, he easily made it and desrvedly so.

This was a player who spanned 3 different decades, 80's, 90's and into the next centennial.  Barry played short stop for the Cincinnati Red legs of the National League, and played one of its hardest positions, shortstop.

Gold Gloves were racked up, All Star invites, MVP considerations and all while bveing the key piece offensively in the Reds line up.

I would watch the Reds play the Expos just watch him field, or throw, and his abilities to be the game changer on offense made him the best hitting shortstop of era.


He only made the one appearance in the World Series in 1990, and excelled fuelling his team's surprise sweep of the Steroid induced Oakland A's.


And so this year at Cooperstown, he and the late Ron Santo will be the latest inductees.

Congratulations, one year late.