This list focuses on Hall of Famers who played for their school's baseball program before embarking on professional careers. It excludes, for example, Larry Doby, who was a member of Virginia Union's 1942 conference champion basketball team, and Jim O'Rourke, who graduated from...
The Giants departed New York for San Francisco before the 1958 season, and by that point, each of these five Hall of Famers had been retired for at least 10 years. (The last one standing was Ott, who mashed 511 homers between 1926-47.) Of course, it was easier to have a great ...
Baseball Hall of Fame History The Hall of Fame was dedicated on June 12, 1939. Stephen Carlton Clark was owner of a local hotel and sought to bring tourists to Cooperstown, which had been suffering economically when the Great Depression significantly reduced the local tourist trade and Prohibition...
The Baseball Writers’ Association of America haselected the three newest Hall of Famers, with Adrián Beltré, Todd Helton and Joe Mauer officially getting the call on Tuesday and joining manager Jim Leyland -- previously elected by the Contemporary Baseball Era Players Committee -- in the Class ...
We're not saying that San Diego Padres star Juan Soto is going to be a Baseball Hall of Famer, but we are telling you that he's in an incredible group in baseball history -- with all Hall of Famers. With a sterling game on Wednesday against the Seattl...
Fascinating Biographies of Baseball Hall of Fame Inductees with Information That Will Never Go Out of Date This new series brings to life the men behind the statistics, all of whom are inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, who helped make major league baseball the ...
Another reason some people leave clear Hall of Famers off the ballot is quite dubious. You see, a player must receive at least 5 percent of the vote to remain on the ballot for the next year. If a voter has a favorite player he is afraid might not get that 5 percent, he or she ...
Three players spent their pre-NFL careers solely in junior colleges: Joe Perry (Class of 1969), Dick “Night Train” Lane (1974), and Jim Taylor (1976). Below is the complete list of NFL Hall of Famers who earned their way to Canton as players and the NCAA schools at which they...
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A Houston baseball legend and numerous sports Hall of Famers made the 36th annual TriStar Collectors Show in Houston a big success.