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[BullNBear52]

Apparently. I hadn't heard about that...

The first question that struck me, upon hearing about the flap over Roger Clemens' Hall of Fame plaque, was, "At what point did this become an occasional issue?" Before Dave Winfield, I never heard even a single discussion of caps on plaques. Or at least I don't remember hearing such a discussion.


But then Winfield (supposedly) "sold" his cap, and then Wade Boggs tried to. And so the Hall of Fame had to do something, and take the matter out of the hands of the players. Because players are human and humans are greedy, and it doesn't look good when naked greed is allowed to take over something that is, however tenuously, supposed to capture history with at least a modicum of integrity.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/news/2003/0615/1568234.html