In his 35th appearance on the ballot, Gil Hodges finally received baseball’s highest honor when he was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. It is a long overdue honor for the man who managed the Mets to their first World Series championship in 1969.
Hodges received 12 of the 16 votes (75%) from the Golden Days Era committee, which was the minimum needed to make it into Cooperstown. He will be enshrined as part of the Class of 2022 alongside Minnie Miñoso, Jim Kaat, and Tony Oliva, who were voted in by the Golden Era committee, as well as Bud Fowler and Buck O’Neil, who were voted in by the Early Baseball Era Committee.