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    Short and sweet: Harold Baines focuses on family, teammates and hard work in emotional Hall of Fame speech

    by Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune Jul 22, 2019 4 minutes

    Harold Baines cut right to the chase Sunday when he began his Hall of Fame induction speech at the Clark Sports Center, telling his friends and former teammates to start their stopwatches.

    The man of few words knew everyone was wondering how long his speech would be, especially after Tim Raines had predicted it would be the shortest in history.

    "I know you have a bet on it," Baines said.

    As it turned out, Baines spoke for 9 minutes, 34 seconds, touching on themes including giving back to your community, putting family ahead of everything else and working

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