From Dusty Baker, Tony La Russa and Joe Torre to ex-teammates Jose Canseco, Carney Lansford, Dennis Eckersley, Dave Stewart ...

Baseball-Reference credits him with ... there are now eight closers in the Hall of Fame (counting Dennis Eckersley as a reliever, although he split his career between starting and relieving).

Year-by-year inductees to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame: BBWAA: Elected by the Baseball ... 2005 — BBWAA: Wade Boggs, Ryne Sandberg. 2004 — BBWAA: Dennis Eckersley, Paul Molitor. 2003 — BBWAA ...

Some Hall of Fame candidates are no-doubt picks, cruising into Cooperstown on the first ballot. Other cases aren't so simple, ...

Wagner was elected in his 10th and final year on the ballot with 82.5% of the vote. Chase Utley climbed to 39.8% in his ...

Ichiro Suzuki is the first Japanese-born player voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He'll be joined by CC Sabathia ...

Former Milwaukee Brewers left-handed pitcher CC Sabathia was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame Monday, receiving 86.8% of ...

As noted by MLB.com in the wake of his ... the only relievers in the Hall of Fame were Hoyt Wilhelm, Goose Gossage, Rollie Fingers, Dennis Eckersley, and Bruce Sutter. The first four of them ...

by Ronald Blum | AP Baseball Writer TOPICS ... became the ninth pitcher in the Hall who was primarily a reliever after Hoyt Wilhelm, Rollie Fingers, Dennis Eckersley, Bruce Sutter, Goose Gossage ...

Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for baseball's Hall of Fame, falling one vote shy of unanimous when he ...

When Ken Griffey Jr.'s own baseball-star father struggled to get through to the talented teen, Rickey Henderson somehow could.

Suzuki received 393 of 394 votes from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Sabathia was on 342 ballots and Wagner on ...