ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Adrián Beltré still hasn’t had an opportunity to just stop and really let it soak in that he is enshrined in baseball's Hall of Fame. “I understand, and I know what that weekend was,” Beltré said. “But I’d be lying to you if I said that I have .
.. It just hasn’t.
” Maybe after being recognized again by the Texas Rangers, the last team in his 21 big league seasons and the one the third baseman played with the longest. Four weeks after his induction in Cooperstown , the Rangers honored Beltré with a series of events, including a ceremony before their game against Minnesota on Saturday night, when his actual Hall of Fame plaque was on display in the ballpark. “This was my last thing on the calendar, this weekend,” Beltré said.
“After that, go home and be a dad and a husband again, and try to figure out when we can find a space for a little vacation. Because I need to just lay down on the beach a little bit.” On his way from California to Cooperstown last month, Beltré stopped in Texas for several days while serving as an ambassador for MLB’s All-Star Game hosted by his former team.
Beltré managed the American League team in the Futures Game , appeared with Commissioner Rob Manfred at MLB’s amateur draft and then at the All-Star Game, five days before his own induction, he was part of the first-pitch ceremony with a trio of other former Rangers who were already in the Hall of Fame: pitchers Fergie Jenkins and Nolan .