The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum has announced the cap selections that will appear on the Hall of Fame plaques for each of the six members of the Hall of Fame class of 2019. Harold Baines, Roy Halladay, Edgar Martinez, Mike Mussina, Mariano Rivera and Lee Smith will be formally inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday, July 21, in Cooperstown, N.Y., as the feature to a four-day celebration of baseball and their careers as part of Hall of Fame Weekend 2019.
Halladay, Martinez, Mussina and Rivera were elected to the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers' Association of America on Jan. 22. Baines and Smith were elected to the Hall of Fame by the Today’s Game Era Committee on Dec. 9.
Each Hall of Fame plaque will be revealed as the prelude to each electee's induction speech on July 21. The Hall of Fame plaque, which serves to reflect the totality of a career, details an individual’s accomplishments in the game in approximately 90 words, while listing each team on which an individual played or managed. An artist rendering of the individual being honored tops the Hall of Fame plaque, and in many instances, a cap, where a logo may or may not be featured, is included. The Hall of Fame provides guidance to inductees as to which logo, if any, may be depicted on an electee's plaque cap.
