Ichiro Suzuki had already cemented a strong, and likely everlasting baseball card market long before Tuesday’s almost unanimous vote for his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame, headlining the ...

Dan Freedman is lawyer and IBWAA member who writes about baseball. Billy Wagner came oh so close. Five votes out of a possible 385, that is how close. With 284 votes from the Baseball Writers ...

Aren’t all relief pitchers just failed starters? In Billy Wagner’s case, the answer is a definite no. The power-packed left-hander never started a game in his major league career (though he ...

Billy Wagner, faced with his last ... next 10 th-and-last-timer up for consideration. Yet Wagner will spend the rest of his life signing autographs tagged with, “Hall of Famer.” ...

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 ...