Phillies legends Chase Utley and Jimmy Rollins hope to follow Billy Wagner’s path to Cooperstown, N.Y. The former Phillies closer learned on Tuesday night that he has been voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame,

Ichiro falls a vote short of being the second unanimous choice ever. CC makes it in his first year of eligibility, Wagner in his last. The recent ballot glut has cleared.

Once more, for baseball immortality, Billy Wagner closed it out. Wagner, the dominant closer who played a two-season sliver of his 16-year career with the Phillies, got elected Tuesday night to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in his 10th and final year on the ballot.

The Ferrum College great is part of the new class of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, which was announced Tuesday night. This was the former reliever’s 10th and final time on the Baseball Writers’ Association of America ballot.

Billy Wagner is finally heading to Cooperstown. The Miller School baseball coach is part of the new class of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, which was announced Tuesday night. This was the former reliever's 10th and final time on the Baseball Writers' Association of America ballot.

The trio of stars, each of whom spent part of their career in New York, will be inducted in Cooperstown on July 27.

Ichiro Suzuki, C.C. Sabathia and Billy Wagner were elected as the newest members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, the museum announced.

Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for the Hall of Fame, falling one vote shy of unanimous when he was elected along with CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner.

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Take Mississippi State, for example. A team that has been second-weekend-of-the-NCAA-tournament good for most of the season has been shoved around in trips to Auburn and Tennessee in the last week. Here's more from Paschall on the Vols' comfortable win that maybe, most importantly, included Chaz Lanier getting back to stroking 3-pointers.

Longtime left-handed pitcher Cole Hamels has the best career WAR (59) among the players scheduled to debut next year and Ryan Braun (47.1%) was an MVP winner, but neither of them has the credentials probably necessary to be earn induction – even if voters take a more liberal approach over their 10 years on the ballot.