Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez stared out at his father, wiping away tears as he spoke. "I love you with all of my heart," Rodriguez said. "If I'm a Hall of Famer, you're a Hall of Famer — double." Those words punctuated Rodriguez's speech as he was inducted ...
In many ways, the fates have tied Senichi Hoshino and Masaji Hiramatsu together in their careers, and on Monday they shared another thing — membership in Japan's Baseball Hall of Fame. Born roughly four months apart in Okayama Prefecture, the two were familiar with each ...
Catcher Tsutomu Ito and pitchers Senichi Hoshino and Masaji Hiramatsu were inducted into Japan's Baseball Hall of Fame on Monday. Ito, the catcher for the Seibu Lions' Pacific League dynasty of the 1980s and 1990s, was elected in the players division. The Chiba Lotte Marines ...
Pete Rose believes he still has a chance to one day get back in baseball. In the meantime, he's turning his attention to the Hall of Fame. Rose said Tuesday he is a changed person even if he still likes to bet on an occasional ...
Fresh off his victory in the Japan Series as the rookie manager of the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks, Kimiyasu Kudo was placed on the ballot for Japan's Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday. Kudo, who won 224 games in a career spent with the Seibu Lions, ...
Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. Check. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. Check. Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. MAS can now put a check in that box as well. He recently completed a personal Hall of Fame hat trick by journeying ...
The voting pool for the Baseball Hall of Fame is being cut by about 20 percent. The Hall said Friday that it estimated 475 ballots would be mailed for the upcoming election. Last year, about 600 ballots were mailed and 549 were cast by members ...
Yogi Berra, the Hall of Fame catcher renowned as much for his dizzying malapropisms as his record 10 World Series championships with the New York Yankees, has died. He was 90. Berra died of natural causes Tuesday at his home in New Jersey, according to ...
Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez and John Smoltz dominated in an era of offense, each in their own way. The 208-cm Big Unit became the tallest of the 215 players elected to baseball's Hall of Fame and the 180-cm Martinez the shortest pitcher picked for Cooperstown ...
Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire's chances to enter the Hall of Fame are dwindling. Baseball writers so far overwhelmingly have decided the outsized statistics of the Steroids Era stars are tarnished by their connection to performance-enhancing drugs use. Once again Tuesday, Cooperstown's ...
Derek Jeter has had as close to perfect a career as a major leaguer can have. Still, five years from now, don't expect the New York Yankees' captain to be a unanimous selection to baseball's Hall of Fame. That's not a knock. He'd be in ...
It took a highly successful NCAA basketball coach, Tom Crean of Indiana University, to put into words what MAS learned long ago as a head high school football coach. Crean admirably admitted: "Coaches receive FAR too much credit for a team winning — and FAR ...
