"From the seat in front of his locker, Dee Gordon looked up at the television set in the middle of the Dodgers clubhouse.

Barry Larkin, whose election into the baseball Hall of Fame was announced Monday, was being interviewed.

"One day," Gordon said, "I want to feel like he's feeling."

All winter, Larkin has offered Gordon advice on how to get there.

Larkin, a former Cincinnati Reds shortstop, lives in Orlando, Fla. Gordon's father, former major league pitcher Tom Gordon, lives down the street."