It was a long time coming, but Billy Wagner finally closed it out. And he couldn’t keep the emotions from flowing. The seven-time All-Star, in his final year of eligibility, was elected into the ...

FERRUM — Billy Wagner’s life is a bit different since he was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The Miller School baseball coach and major league great usually sleeps on Ferrum ...

FERRUM, Va. — Billy Wagner’s life is a bit different since he was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame last week. The former Ferrum College and major league great usually sleeps on ...

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 ...

The path to the National Baseball Hall of Fame was far from easy for Billy Wagner. It was a grueling, decade-long wait filled with challenges, but ultimately, it became a triumph worth celebrating.

Nowhere is this clearer, perhaps, than in the sheer glee he expresses at working on The Purple Bird, his 30th studio album, his 25th under the moniker Bonnie “Prince” Billy and his first with ...

Billy Wagner came through in his final inning. In his 10th and last bid on the ballot, the former Mets closer earned what might as well have been his 423rd save, clearing the 75 percent threshold ...

Billy Wagner only spent one season of his MLB career with the Atlanta Braves. It was his final campaign in 2010. Ironically, the 16-year reliever pitcher getting inducted into the Baseball Hall of ...

Former Houston Astros reliever Billy Wagner is headed to Cooperstown. Wagner managed to make the Hall of Fame on his 10th and final ballot, garnering 82.5 percent of the vote. He joins Ichiro ...

Billy Wagner pitched for five organizations in his major-league career. The former closer made at least one All-Star team with four of them, saved at least 100 games with two and played his final ...

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 ...

I recall first watching Billy Wagner pitch in a game late in the 1998 season. I was a university student who spent more time devouring the contents of Baseball America than I did on my proper ...