C. Trent Rosecrans

crosecrans@enquirer.com

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — From a distance, Ken Griffey Jr. was wearing a sharp suit, like just about everyone else on stage at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum on Sunday. But upon closer inspection, it was special.

Griffey wore a custom suit, tie and shoes.

The suit looked like a normal navy pinstripe suit, but those weren’t pinstripes, it was tiny, vertical, teal text saying “HALL OF FAME CLASS OF 2016.”

The shoes were Nikes, but no ordinary Nikes. Based off one of his signature Swingman shoes, they were brown leather lace-ups and the heels were made with pieces of wood from one of his game-used bats. Inside his shoes were Jackie Robinson socks.

And then there was the custom-made gold tie, with what looked from a distance as a normal paisley tie, but interspersed with his Swingman logo, a silhouette of his swing.