COOPERSTOWN, New York ¨C Few Baseball Hall of Famers have waited longer than Carlos Beltran, Andruw Jones and Jeff Kent to feel like rookies one more time.
¡°This is the closest thing to my first at-bat in the ?big leagues,¡± Beltran said as he opened his speech Sunday afternoon. ¡°Where I feel excited to be here, but at the same time, I feel very nervous.¡±
It¡¯s finally time to relax for Beltran, Jones and Kent, whose collective patience was rewarded when they were officially enshrined in front of an estimated crowd of 12,000 on a sun-splashed day at the Clark Sports Center in this bucolic upstate town.
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