The 2019 ballots showed small gains for both, but it's what those who didn't vote for them tell us that says their day in Cooperstown is unlikely to come.
Craig Biggio has been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, honored along with Pedro Martinez, Randy Johnson and John Smoltz in the 2015 class.
The Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasters was presented on Saturday to Dick Enberg and Tom Gage received the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for writers in a ceremony at Doubleday Field.
On the eve of his induction, Pedro Martinez said he believes a steady run of Dominican Republic players will follow him into the Hall of fame in the coming years.
Jeff Bagwell says he's happy that former Houston Astros teammate Craig Biggio will enter baseball's Hall of Fame this summer, but the slugging first baseman isn't holding his breath for his own enshrinement into Cooperstown.
Pete Rose would very much like to talk to new MLB commissioner Rob Manfred about lifting his lifetime ban and possibly allowing the "Hit King" to be eligible to enter the sport's hallowed Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
