The 2022 Hall of Fame ceremony for David Ortiz, Gil Hodges, Jim Kaat, Minnie Miñoso, Tony Oliva, Bud Fowler and Buck O’Neil is being held Sunday at 10:30 a.m. PT, with MLB Network exclusively broadcasting the event. The induction ceremony additionally can be streamed on MLB.com.
MLB Network’s coverage of Hall of Fame festivities began at 8 a.m. Sunday morning. The induction weekend also included ESPN’s Tim Kurkjian being honored with this year’s Baseball Writers Association of America Career Excellence Award, and the late Jack Graney receiving the 2022 Ford C. Frick Award.
Hodges is among four players who gained enshrinement to Cooperstown via the Golden Days Era Committee. Fowler and O’Neil were voted in by the Early Baseball Era Committee, and Ortiz joined the Hall of Fame as the only member for the 2022 class to make it from the BBWAA ballot.
Hodges last was up for Hall of Fame vote by the BBWAA in 1983, but garnered just 63.4% support in his 15th and final year appearing on the ballot. At least 75% of the vote from BBWAA members is required to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Irene Hodges, daughter of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers icon, is giving the speech to posthumously induct her father more than 50 years after his death in 1972.
Hodges becomes the eighth member of the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers elected into the Hall of Fame. He joins Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella, Sandy Koufax, Tommy Lasorda and manager Walter Alston; Lasorda was inducted as a manager in 1997.
Hodges played in 2,071 games and hit .273/.359/.487 with 295 doubles, 370 home runs and 1,274 RBI. He was named to seven consecutive All-Star Games from 1949-55, and was part of Dodgers teams that won a National League pennant in 1947, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1955 and 1956.
Hodges is second on Dodgers all-time lists in in home runs (361) and RBI (1,254); third in total bases (3,357), extra-base hits (703) and walks (925); fourth in games played (2,006) and fifth in runs scored (1,088). He also is the Dodgers’ all-time leader in games played at first base with 1,851.
Dodgers retire No. 14 jersey for Hodges
The Dodgers retired No. 14 during a pregame ceremony in June. Hodges became the first player the Dodgers honored with a jersey retirement since doing so for Don Sutton and his No. 20 during the 1998 season. H
Hodges’ number was added to the Dodger Stadium Ring of Honor that features Lasorda, Koufax, Vin Scully and several others.
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