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.

Mixing sneaky humor with heartfelt messages, Ichiro Suzuki, the first Japanese-born player to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, puts on a show in Cooperstown.

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."