The New York Yankees have many illustrious players who have been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Today you can add Yankee pitcher and broadcaster Jim Kaat to that list. Others inducted were Gill Hodges, Minnie Minoso, Tony Oliva, a teammate of Kaat’s when with the Twins, Buck O’Neil, and Bud Fowler.
The selections were made on Sunday in Orlando, Florida. The six will be honored on July 24, 2022, in Cooperstown, along with the Baseball Writers Association of America’s selections for the class of 2022. Kaat, Hodges, Minoso, and Oliva were selected by the Golden Days Era Committee (1950-1969), Fowler and O’Neil from the Early Baseball Era Committee (before 1950).