Those 117 gentlemen should have joined Mariano Rivera as unanimous selections to the None of them did. If anything, I undercounted. I do allow for some honest difference of opinion. Nor am I including ...

CC Sabathia adds another C to his name now, for Cooperstown, now that he becomes the latest great Yankee to become a first-ballot Hall of Famer.

He also proudly joins a list of the best left-handed starters the Yankees have ever had, in there with Whitey Ford ... and giving the Orioles just four hits and a run. In the end, he pitched ...

There is Ichiro Suzuki, the first Asian player ever elected, who when he signed with the Orix Blue Wave was 5'9" and 120 pounds and was so unorthodox his manager wasn’t sure if he would ever hit ...

Wagner and Whitey Ford are the only Hall of Fame pitchers ... Ichiro Suzuki: He is one of only five players with 3,000 hits, a .300 average and 500 stolen bases. The others are Ty Cobb, Eddie ...

3,000 career hits OK, Ichiro was mostly a singles hitter ... and more than quality Hall of Famers such as Juan Marichal, Whitey Ford, Pedro Martinez or Don Drysdale. Those guys all felt like ...

Welcome to the Hall of Fame, Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner. It's a remarkable achievement to survive the gauntlet of baseball writers to get elected to Cooperstown: After all, the ...

Before his political triumphs he was just a baseball-obsessed kid from Queens, one with enough talent to get signed by the Pirates in 1952 (the scout who signed him was in NYC to check out an ...

3,000 career hits OK, Ichiro was mostly a singles hitter ... His 251 wins are the same as Bob Gibson and more than quality Hall of Famers such as Juan Marichal, Whitey Ford, Pedro Martinez or Don ...