The Hall of Fame announced yesterday that Andre Dawson will be wearing an Expo hat in the Hall. Although Dawson himself claimed to prefer to be inducted as a Cub but that won't be the case. Since rumors spead that players that played for multiple teams were being offered "incentives" to wear their teams hat in the Hall, the HOF decided to change its policy regarding hat selection. Before 2001, a player could choose the hat they prefered to wear in the Hall. The new rule has already affected players like Gary Carter who would have chose to wear a Mets hat but instead is inducted as an Expo and Wade Boggs who won a championship with the Yankees in 1996 and therefore would have liked to be inducted as a Yankee. Boggs however, played eleven years in Boston where he put up some of his best numbers and as a result, the Hall chose the Red Sox for him. Andre Dawson is now the next victim of the rule change. Dawson spent eleven seasons with the Montreal Expo and posted alot of great numbers there. However, I think we all remember Dawson as a Chicago Cub where he had his best season (1987) and played with guys like Ryne Sandberg, Shawon Dunston, Mark Grace and even pre-PEDs Sammy Sosa. Maybe the guys at the HOF need to revisit the issue and use some common sense before making such a rule change.
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