"For two guys from totally different neighborhoods – one from suburban Cincinnati, the other from Fremont, in inner-city Los Angeles – Barry Larkin and Eric Davis certainly did get along.

"As soon as I met his parents,'' said Davis, of Shirley and Robert Larkin, ''I knew where he got his humility from. I remember having dinner at their home with Barry, and everybody was there, too. It was like the Brady Bunch.

"I remember thinking, 'Man, this didn't happen too often at my home."

Larkin's hometown -- Silverton – and all of Greater Cincinnati and Reds Nation, including Davis, were celebrating Monday upon receiving the news that Larkin had been elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame with 86 percent of the ballots cast by the voting members of the Baseeball Writers Association of America (BBWAA).

"To me, it feels like I just got elected,'' Davis said. "I'm sure everybody (on those Reds teams who played with Larkin) feels the same way.""