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The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum opened its doors for the first time on this date back in 1939. The 300 elected inductees include 208 former major leaguers, 35 Negro leaguers, 28 pioneers or executives, 19 managers and 10 umpires. Of tho...

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Catcher Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez will be 16th member of the Rangers Baseball Hall of Fame, the club announced on Friday afternoon. Rodriguez will be the lone inductee this year. The pregame ceremony will take place before the Ran...

Poor weather conditions forced the cancellation of Saturday's Hall of Fame Classic at Doubleday Field.

Quick quiz: Where can you find the largest publicly available collection of baseball cards? If you said the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, give yourself a pat on the back. You're right! But here's a trickier one: Where can you find...

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y., currently is giving Paul Konerko a little bit of a test drive with his 2012 uniform on full display. The uniform Konerko wore last season when he hit his 400th career home run is ...

CHICAGO -- Even the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y., appears to be preparing for what could be Paul Konerko's final season on the South Side. The road jersey Konerko was wearing last April when he hit the 400th home ...

Fernando Valenzuela will be inducted into the Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday during a ceremony at the Universidad Sonora, Mexico.

Retired Chicago White Sox slugger Frank Thomas says he feels even better about his career after watching steroids-tainted stars Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa and Roger Clemens fail to gain entry to the Hall of Fame.

The mayor of Cooperstown says not having a living player inductee this summer, for the first time since 1965, won't put his town's stores out of business.

There will be an induction ceremony at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum this year, but no one from the select group judged by the BBWAA will be part of it. What's done is done, and no one, first ballot or otherwise, was deemed worthy of ...

Nate Silver got exactly two things wrong about the 2012 election: the outcome of Senate elections in North Dakota and Minnesota. Everything else about the election fell before the might of Silver's analysis on his FiveThirtyEight blog -- he correctly...

Earlier Wednesday, we posted a blank cartoon, and readers offered their captions. Our favorite was by commenter Mike_Williams7. Check your ESPN.com profile message center for an email. Thanks for participating. Check back Friday for another cartoo...

It's that time again. Time to break down the Hall of Fame voting of 2013, in all its discombobulated splendor.

We got The Great Hall of Fame Shutout of 2013, a no-vote by the Baseball Writers Association of America that ensured induction weekend will be free of living beings for the first time in 50-plus years. Players accused (Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa) or k...

Readers of the New York Times who turned to the sports section this morning were in for quite a surprise. The front of Thursday's sports section had a headline of either "Welcome To Cooperstown" (the early edition) or "And the Inductees Are ..." (...

To take a step forward, the Hall of Fame may first need to take a step backward.