Topic: National Baseball Hall of Fame

Former Chicago Cubs star Ron Santo was elected to American baseball's Hall of Fame on Monday, a year after he died of complications of bladder cancer.The third baseman won five Gold Gloves, was chosen for nine all-star games and belted 342 homers ...

- COOPERSTOWN, New York (Reuters) - Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven provided an international touch to the Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony Sunday as they were enshrined along with longtime executive Pat Gillick.Alomar, who became the third Puerto Rican player to ...

TORONTO (Reuters) - Hall of Fame second baseman Roberto Alomar will become the first Toronto Blue Jays player to have his number retired, the Major League Baseball team said on Tuesday.Alomar, who helped Toronto win back-to-back World Series titles in 1992 and ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Baseball Hall of Fame manager Dick Williams, who led the Oakland Athletics to a pair of World Series championships, died on Thursday after suffering a ruptured aortic aneurysm. He was aged 82.Williams posted a record of 1,571-1,451 during ...

Dick Williams, a Hall of Fame baseball manager who guided back-to-back World Series champions with the Oakland A's, died Thursday at his Las Vegas home at age 82.Williams went 1,571-1,421 in a total of 21 seasons as a Major League Baseball manager ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Baseball Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew, a brawny slugger who sits near the top of the career home runs list, said on Friday he is ending his battle with esophageal cancer and will live out the final days ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Duke Snider, a Hall of Fame centerfielder who was the leading home run hitter for the fabled Brooklyn Dodger teams of the 1950s, died Sunday. He was 84.Snider was a graceful outfielder with a picture-perfect left-handed swing. He batted ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - This year's Baseball Hall of Fame vote took on a distinctly international tone with the election of Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven, who tried on their Cooperstown jerseys at a news conference on Thursday.Alomar, who played for seven ...

Hall of Fame slugger Harmon Killebrew diagnosed with cancerHall of Fame slugger Harmon Killebrew says he has been diagnosed with esophageal cancer.Killebrew released a statement through the Minnesota Twins on Thursday saying that he is receiving treatment at the Mayo Clinic in ...

Prominent sports deaths in 2010Twenty prominent sports deaths in 2010:_Sparky Anderson, 76, Hall of Fame manager of Reds, Tigers._George Blanda, 83, iron-man AFL-NFL quarterback-kicker._Manute Bol, 47, shot-blocking NBA center/humanitarian._Pat Burns, 58, longtime NHL coach who led New Jersey to 2003 Stanley Cup._Bob ...