MINNEAPOLIS — Tony Oliva is in post-election hubris. He's spent the summer preparing for a moment he didn't believe would happen.
The doors of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., are finally swinging open for him this weekend after being closed since his career ended 46 years ago. His numbers didn't get better during that time — the voters did.
Oliva, 84, finally gets his day in the sun along with former Twins teammate Jim Kaat, who was also voted in back in December by the Golden Days Era committee. David Ortiz, who broke in with the Twins in the late 1990s before starring with the Red Sox, will be the third living inductee Sunday.
