Dave Parker, who died a month before he was to be inducted, and Dick Allen got into the Hall posthumously after being voted in by the classics committee.

Another Astros legend now finds himself in the Hall of Fame. "I feel like my baseball life has come full circle," closing pitcher Billy Wagner said during his acceptance speech.

Suzuki referened the lone writer who did not give him a Hall of Fame vote, saying that a previous invitation to dinner had now "expired."