Lynn Worthy | Post-Dispatch

Sports columnist

Walt Jocketty’s posthumous entry into the Cardinals Hall of Fame this weekend certainly came with bittersweet overtones. Honestly, until the ceremony started on Saturday afternoon, the bitter resonated more with me than the sweet.

Initially, the whole thing didn't quite sit well because of the abrupt way Jocketty’s tenure with the club ended and the fact that his induction came nearly 18 years later (more than a decade after the Hall of Fame opened) and after his death in April.

However, the scene in Ballpark Village with Jocketty’s son, Joey, locking his eyes on the video montage honoring his father and then Joey standing in for his father as Bill DeWitt III read the inscription on Jocketty’s plaque to the crowd, drove home that this weeken

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