9, 2009 against the Toronto Blue Jays. Pure coincidence: This was also the date the Dodgers Sandy Koufax pitched a perfect game in 1965. Howard told me he had once met Koufax. I’d heard that ...

Tris Speaker and Cy Young are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in the second year of voting. 1952 — The Professional Golfers Association approves the participation of blacks in golf tournaments. 1972 — Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers ...

1937 — Nap Lajoie, Tris Speaker and Cy Young are elected to the Baseball ... of blacks in golf tournaments. 1972 — Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers becomes the youngest player elected ...

Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner. With players this accomplished and an institution so steeped in history, there are plenty of fun facts to dig through about the newest Hall of Fame class.

The Dodgers revamped rotation may be bad news for Clayton Kershaw. The future Hall of Fame pitcher underwent separate surgeries on his left toe and left knee earlier in the offseason. He had said that he not only plans to "crush" his rehab,

There was never going to be a Minnesota Twins player voted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame during this cycle. The time for that was last year, and Joe Mauer was given his flowers as a first ballot selection.

He began his full ascension in '07; by 2009, he'd broken out as an ace, finishing second in AL Cy Young voting to Zack ... short-peak Hall of Famer, Sandy Koufax. Hernández actually has Koufax ...

CC Sabathia, a baseball fighter and a quintessential Yankee, is a well-deserved selection to the Baseball Hall of Fame, writes columnist

It's clear that if Chipper Jones had a vote for the Baseball Hall of Fame, his former Atlanta Braves teammate Andruw Jones would have been on his ballot. Chippe

Scott joins a loaded Dodgers team with a stacked starting rotation that includes reigning NL MVP Shohei Ohtani, two-time Cy Young award winner Blake ... the former catcher who caught Sandy Koufax’s perfect game and was the 1990 AL manager of the year ...

Year-by-year inductees to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame: BBWAA: Elected by the Baseball Writers Association of America; TGE: Today’s Game Era (1998-present) committee; VC: Elected by the Veterans Committee;

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 Baseball Hall of Fame remains the toughest to gain entry to,