The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum announced their 2025 Hall of Fame class on Tuesday, with only three former players selected - Ichirio Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner.Wagner, who was the only former Boston Red Sox selected,

Former Cleveland pitcher CC Sabathia has been elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum announced the results of the annual Baseball Writers’ Association of America Hall of Fame election on Tuesday evening.

To this point, only famed Yankee closer Mariano Rivera has been elected to the Hall of Fame unanimously — not Babe Ruth, not Hank Aaron, not Ken Griffey Jr. nor Derek Jeter, just Rivera. Could Suzuki be the second?

Bay Area native and lifelong Raiders fan CC Sabathia is headed to the Baseball Hall of Fame. He enters Cooperstown along with legendary Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki and Astros Pitcher Billy Wagner.

Billy Wagner fought back tears after learning he had been voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame's Class of 2025 along with Ichiro Suzuki and CC Sabathia,

Shiki himself played baseball and was inducted into the Japanese hall of fame in a special berth. This poet of the Meiji era (1868-1912), who loved the newly introduced sport, may have appreciated the words of Ichiro: "Baseball could be a little more relaxed. Baseball could be a little more precise."

The distance from Ferrum, Virginia to Cooperstown, New York is a road far longer than just the miles between the two small towns.For Billy Wagner, it's a journe

Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for baseball’s Hall of Fame, falling one vote shy of unanimous when he was elected along with CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner.

Ken Griffey Jr. played on the same Seattle team as Ichiro in 2009 and 2010, near the end of Junior's playing career.

On Tuesday, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum revealed the 2025 Hall of Fame class, which included former Boston Red Sox reliever Billy Wagner. Wagner, 53, was a first-round pick of the Houston Astros in the 1993 MLB draft out of Ferrum College.

Expected to be the first Japanese player elected to the Cooperstown on Tuesday, Ichiro is a wellspring of national pride and his fame across the Pacific when he joined MLB was therapeutic for his