Billy Wagner, faced with his last chance at earning enshrinement to baseball’s hall of immortals in Cooperstown, N.Y., finally vaulted the 75% mark to punch his ticket to athletic immortality ...

Wagner earned just a 51-percent voting share in 2022, leapt to 68.1 percent in 2023 and missed Hall of Fame induction by just five votes in 2024. As for Wagner’s fate next week, we can already ...

Players eligible for the Hall of Fame must appear on 75-plus percent of ballots to secure induction, a bar that eluded Wagner in recent years. But the seven-time All-Star continues to make ...