It's not how you start...
For some of the game's legends, the road to Cooperstown wasn't always smooth
Have you heard the one about…
…the slow-starting Hall of Fame greats?
We tend to remember greatness in its finished form.
The numbers polished. The highlights looped. The legacies settled.
What we don’t remember nearly as well is how many of those legends looked completely lost when they first arrived.
Not just ordinary.
Overmatched.
One of them once sat at his locker, fighting back tears, convinced he didn’t belong.



