The no-doubters appear to be a few years away as next winter's ballot doesn't include any slam-dunk first-ballot inductees.

Baseball Hall of Fame class will include five players. Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner will join Dick Allen and Dave Parker in Cooperstown this summer, the BB

The Hall of Fame doors will open to Ichiro Suzuki, to CC Sabathia, and to Billy Wagner, and that’s a solid trio.

Last week, longtime closer Billy Wagner earned election into the Baseball Hall of Fame. His son, Will, plays for the Toronto Blue Jays.

Emptying out my reporter’s notebook while hoping the CBS cameras keep showing Taylor Swift’s entourage during the Chiefs-Bills game on Sunday.

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BBWAA secretary-treasurer Jack O’Connell recalled Suzuki was at the Hall in 2001 when he called to inform the Seattle star he had been voted AL Rookie of the Year. Suzuki received 27 of 28 first-place votes, all but one from an Ohio writer who selected Sabathia.

No one has ever walked through these doors with the sport-changing, Hall-changing, planet-changing possibilities of Ichiro.

Former Yankees Ichiro Suzuki and CC Sabathia joined former Met Billy Wagner on Thursday at a news conference about being elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

At a Hall of Fame news conference, Ichiro joined the ranks of many people around the globe in wondering why he didn’t get that one vote.

Jalen Hurts continues to trend in the right direction toward playing in Sunday’s NFC championship game against the Washington Commanders.

With Ichiro Suzuki somehow not getting inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame unanimously on the first ballot, all signs point to this next icon of the game potentially being able to do what one voter decided should not be Suzuki's destiny.