Vladimir Guerrero keeps Hall of Fame acceptance speech short and sweet: ****** Thanks for watching, subscribe for more videos: ****** It took 58 years for the Angels to witness the Hall of Fame induction of a player wearing their cap, and when that moment finally came on a sun-splashed Sunday afternoon in baseball’s ancestral home, it lasted about as long as one of the notoriously free-swinging Vladimir Guerrero’s at-bats. After accepting his plaque and posing for for pictures with Commissioner Rob Manfred and Hall of Fame executives Jane Forbes Clark and Jeff Idelson, Guerrero strode to the lectern wearing a light-blue suit and bright-red tie, the colors of the Montreal Expos and Angels, the teams with which he spent most of his 16-year career. Advertisement “Buenas tardes,” Guerrero said, wishing a crowd estimated at 53,000, believed to be the second-largest in induction-day history, a good afternoon. The slugger, speaking through interpreter Jose Mota, thanked God, his mother and father, Montreal and Canada “for giving me the first opportunity to be a big league player.” He thanked Angels manager Mike Scioscia and all those in Anaheim “who have influenced my career.” Guerrero saluted fellow inductees Chipper Jones, Jim Thome, Trevor Hoffman, Alan Trammel and Jack Morris, turning to them and saying “how happy I am to be a part of this group.” He thanked the hundreds of people who traveled from his tiny hometown of Don Gregorio on the Dominican Republic’s southern coast to attend the ceremony, many of whom waved Dominican flags, blew air horns and chanted his name. Vladimir Guerrero speaks during an induction ceremony at the Clark Sports Center on Sunday in Cooperstown, N.Y. (Hans Pennink / Associated Press) A father of eight, Guerrero, the first Dominican-born position player in the Hall of Fame, noted that his induction fell on Father’s Day in the Dominican, making the day “even more special.” Then Guerrero wished a “Happy Father’s Day to all the Dominican pops,” flashed his huge trademark grin, waved to the crowd and walked back to his seat, the entirety of his speech, including time for translation, lasting four minutes, one of the shortest induction speeches ever. “It was actually longer than I thought it would be,” former Angels general manager Bill Stoneman, who signed Guerrero to a five-year, $70-million deal in 2004, said with a chuckle. “He’s a man of very few words. He shows you how to do things. He doesn’t tell you how to do things. And that’s what you call a good teammate.” Angels owner Arte Moreno, who led a contingent of about two dozen team executives, former players and broadcasters in Cooperstown, had a similar reaction. “I’ve been around Vladdy for a lot of years,” Moreno said, “and like he said, he’s a man of few words who let his bat do the talking.” That bat produced a career average of .318 with 2,590 hits, 449 home runs and 1,496 runs batted in, and fueled the most dominant six-year run in Angels history, the team following its 2002 World Series title by winning five division titles and reaching two American League Championshi #VladimirGuerrero, #keepsHall, #Fame, #acceptance, #speech, #short, #sweet #VladimirGuerrero, #LAAngels, #LosAngelesAngels, #Angels