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The Major League Baseball Veterans Committee elected six new members to the Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame.
We couldn’t be more thrilled to welcome Gil Hodges, Jim Kaat, Minnie Miñoso, Tony Oliva, Bud Fowler and Buck O’Neil to Cooperstown!https://t.co/ax8NfTumYq pic.twitter.com/FY99BQyMU2
— National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum â??¾ (@baseballhall) December 6, 2021
Tony Oliva, Jim Kaat, Bud Fowler, Gil Hodges, Minnie Miñoso and Buck O’Neil, were chosen by the Veterans Committee to enter the Hall of the Immortals on July 24, 2022, along with the members who will be elected by the Baseball Writers Association of America.
O’Neil and Miñoso had the opportunity to enter the temple for the first time since Major League Baseball decided to honor the Negro Leagues and recognize it as a major league.
He already has a statue in the Hall of Fame…and now he’ll get a plaque in the gallery.
Welcome to Cooperstown, Buck O’Neil! https://t.co/bVjL9pStvI pic.twitter.com/Wh9fzkawbb
— National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum â??¾ (@baseballhall) December 6, 2021
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O’Neil, who passed away in 2006 at the age of 94, was a first baseman who participated in two All-Star games in the Negro Leagues and the first black manager in the National League and American League.
The Cuban Miñoso, participated in two games of the stars of the Negro Leagues, was the first black player for the Chicago White Sox in 1951 and was seven times All Stars with the White Sox and Indians, accumulated a total of 2,110 hits in his career.
Fowler, is recognized as the first black professional player by Major League Baseball.
Hodges, hit 370 home runs and won 3 Gold Gloves defending first base, also, helped his Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers team to seven division pennants and two World Series championships, later, he would become Manager of the Mets from New York leading them to the 1969 World Series championship.
Welcome to Cooperstown, Gil Hodges.https://t.co/scSImliERX pic.twitter.com/o9gYRfN5Pj
— National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum â??¾ (@baseballhall) December 5, 2021
Oliva, a three-time Batting Champion with the Minnesota Twins in the American League, the Cuban becomes the first player since 1961 to be elected to the Hall of Fame with fewer than 2000 hits in his career.
While, Kaat, left a record of 283 victories and 237 defeats in 25 seasons in the Major Leagues, in addition, he won a total of 16 Golden Gloves.
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