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    Cooperstown Awaits

    Mar 20, 2021 6 minutes
    BY ROBERT GRAYSON
    PHOTO: KENNETH C. ZIRKEL/CREATIVE COMMONS

    WHAT: Induction Ceremony

    WHEN: July 25

    WHERE: Indoor, TV event only from in Cooperstown, N.Y.

    WHO: The Class of 2020

    INDUCTEES: Derek Jeter, Marvin Miller, Ted Simmons and Larry Walker

    NOTABLE AWARDS: Al Michaels, 2021 Ford C. Frick Award winner for broadcasting excellence Ken Harrelson, 2020 Frick Award winner, Ken Harrelson David Montgomery, 2020 Buck O’Neil Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Posthumously; Montgomery a Philadelphia Phillies front-office icon whose career spanned parts of 50 years

    NOTE: Nobody was voted into the Hall in 2021

    So, you thought New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter going into the Baseball Hall of Fame would simply be a “great player being immortalized on the first ballot” story without any drama. After all, what could go wrong, right?

    Though Jeter himself was never convinced getting elected into the hallowed Hall was a sure thing, the rest of us thought it was a foregone conclusion.

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