Which cap should Mike Piazza wear on his Hall of Fame plaque?

[53Browns]

One with a great big shamrock on top.

[ksabet]

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[Cozumeleno]

No idea how final this is but the HOF website has his primary team listed as the Mets. Plaque is blank, though.

http://baseballhall.org/hof/Piazza-Mike

[Cozumeleno]

And for the record, I don't care too much in his case since I think it's a pretty even split. He was a slightly better player with the Dodgers but played a little more with the Mets, reaching the World Series with them. This is one of those cases where you can make a good argument on either side.

When I think about him, the sniff test for me says he's a Dodger. But I know the Hall doesn't want a disaster and he's on the record as saying he doesn't want to go in as one. Since it's close and they can avoid controversy, I think the call will be the Mets.

[ALR-bishop]

i do not have a preference on Piazza but appreciate the dilemma it can cause for fans . As a long time Cardinals fan I worry Pujols will go in as an Angel....assuming he makes it

[Cozumeleno]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

i do not have a preference on Piazza but appreciate the dilemma it can cause for fans . As a long time Cardinals fan I worry Pujols will go in as an Angel....assuming he makes it

I think you're safe there since he played 11 years in St. Louis and those were easily the most productive years he's had. He only has four so far with the Angels and even if he somehow got to 10-11 there, his better years were by far and away with the Cardinals. Piazza's production with the Mets was much closer to his Dodgers years than the Pujols split will be.

[jerseygary]

Unfortunately because of Carlton Fisk players no longer get to choose which hat to wear. That's why a guy like Leon Day who played 90% of his career with the Newark Eagles is wearing a Puerto Rican winter league cap instead of an Eagles one (I seriously doubt anyone at the Hall even knew what the hat represented anyway).

For those who don't remember, when Fisk was elected there was the question of whether he'd choose and Red Sox or White Sox cap. According to a few sportswriters I knew at the time, Fisk supposedly started a bidding war between Boston and Chicago - which ever city and team lavished him with more treats and goodies got the great honor of having that city's hat on his plaque. Chicago eventually tired of it and Boston won out. The Hall of Fame was pretty upset by the episode and after that no player was allowed to pick which team he was to represent.