COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- When Jeff Bagwell, Ivan Rodriguez and Tim Raines take to the podium for their Baseball Hall of Fame induction speeches on Sunday, in many respects there will be nothing remarkable about their time on the stage. Oh, it's a remarkable thing to be receiving baseball's highest honor. And because they are unique individuals with different lives and careers, the stories they tell can only be their own. But it will be a familiar scene, and that's a good thing, because the annual renewal of this ceremony reminds us how this thing we all love is as embedded into our past as it is in the present.
Class of 2017 can open Hall of Fame to excluded stars
