{"id":618602,"date":"2026-03-11T14:11:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/618602\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T14:11:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:11:16","slug":"andre-dawson-is-getting-his-hall-of-fame-cap-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/618602\/","title":{"rendered":"Andre Dawson is getting his Hall of Fame cap changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">But more than 13 years after his induction, Dawson has had a change of heart. He\u2019s taking one more gamble, asking the Hall to reconsider and change the cap on his Cooperstown plaque from the Expos to the Cubs. He recently sent a letter to Jane Forbes Clark, chairman of the Hall of Fame board of directors, and the Hall committee requesting a meeting about possibly changing his plaque.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">As of Monday night, Dawson hadn\u2019t heard back, and he wasn\u2019t sure whether the Hall would respond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI don\u2019t expect them to jump on something like this,\u201d he told me Monday in a phone conversation. \u201cIf they elect to respond, they\u2019ll take their time. And it wouldn\u2019t surprise me if they don\u2019t respond.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But more than 13 years after his induction, Dawson has had a change of heart. He\u2019s taking one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,138,24,7407,4245,161,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-618602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-cubs","11":"tag-chicago-cubs-news","12":"tag-chicagocubs","13":"tag-cubs","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116210950787989103","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}