HOF decides Dawson will wear the wrong hat

Apparently for historical reasons and despite his own preference, Andre Dawson will go into the Hall of Fame as an Expo, not a Cub.

Or at least wearing an Expos hat, rather than a Cubs one.

Dawson played for ten years with the extinct Expos, and only six for the Cubs. Nevertheless, he feels (and I agree with him) that his greatest impact was as a Cub.

Chicago is where his heart is- and he's ticked off that his bronze image in Cooperstown will be wearing a beach ball with a bill on its head instead of Cubbie blue.

I always assumed that a player who was elected to the Hall and who had played with different teams got to make the call as to which team's cap he wore on the plaque himself. Apparently not. It seems that while the player is consulted, it's finally the Hall's call- and it decided that, since there are comparatively few Montreal Expos in the Hall (in fact, I don't think that before Dawson's election there were any), it would somehow be fitting to commemorate the years in which Montreal had a major league baseball team by making sure that there was at least one.

Macht nichts. To Dawson himself, and certainly to us Cub fans, Andre will always be a Cub no matter what hat they put on his head in Cooperstown.