baseball hall of fame

Curt Schilling, Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds are the leading candidates returning to baseball’s Hall of Fame ballot in a year without any favorites among the new names.

The Mets legend passed away Monday in his sleep, according to his family.

Derek Jeter, Larry Walker and the rest of this year’s Baseball Hall of Fame class will have to wait for their big moment at Cooperstown

It was essentially a foregone conclusion that the longtime Yankees captain would be elected, with the only debate being if he would be unanimous or not. Jeter fell just one vote shy of that honor. NBC New York’s Bruce Beck reports.

The identity of the voter who kept Derek Jeter from being a unanimous Hall of Fame pick may never be known — and both Jeter and the Hall are OK with that. Individual members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America decide whether to make their votes public. When the BBWAA decided to release individual ballots for MVP, Cy Young…

Derek Jeter is expected to be picked for the baseball’s Hall of Fame. The question is, will the pick be unanimous? Bruce Beck reports.