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For the fourth time in the past eight years, the 10 th and final shot was on the money for a would-be-Baseball Hall of Famer. Billy Wagner, faced with his last chance at earning enshrinement to ...
This year is the last one for Billy Wagner's Hall of Fame case as it's his 10th and final year on the ballot. In year nine, he came close but fell short. If he were once again below the 75% vote ...
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 ...
Retired MLB pitcher Billy Wagner couldn’t contain his emotional when he got the call that he’d finally be entering the National Baseball Hall of Fame. For someone to enter the Hall of Fame ...
Wagner erupted in tears as he received the news of his induction during a phone call with Hall of Fame representatives in Cooperstown. Our Esquina's Jose de Jesus Ortiz was alongside Wagner in the ...
The longtime Astros closer spent the last 10 years on the ballot, with 2025 representing his last chance to get voted into the Hall of Fame. When he got the call, Wagner couldn't contain his ...
That puts Wagner in rare company. Since 1966, just one player, Scott Rolen, has been elected to the Hall via the writers’ ballot after receiving a lower share of the vote in his first year on ...
The Hall of Fame announced the results of this year’s Baseball Writers Association of America voting. Ichiro, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner topped the 75% threshold for induction. They’ll ...
"I had no idea. I think current players should go to the Hall of Fame. It's so inspiring." Billy Wagner had 422 saves -- eighth most in MLB history -- and his 11.9 strikeouts per nine innings are ...
Billy Wagner for the Braves (Copyright 2024 by WSLS 10 - All rights reserved.) COOPERSTOWN, NY – In his tenth and final year on the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot ...
Wagner, the former Houston Astros closer, was elected Tuesday to the Baseball Hall of Fame, the honor arriving in his 10th and final year of eligibility on the writers’ ballot and ending an ...