Shohei Ohtani finished the unofficial first half of the season with a National League-best 32 home runs, which are the most ...

The late Gil Hodges had appeared on various Hall of Fame ballots 34 times, receiving more than 3,000 votes, but coming up short every time. That is, until Sunday night, when he was voted in by the ...

Gil Hodges, a former Dodgers star and Mets manager, was elected to the Hall of Fame on Sunday. AP “I can’t explain, because you get kind of numb.

Joan Hodges, Gil’s widow, rode with him up Broadway in an open convertible in October 1969, ticker tape swirling like snowfall. That World Series triumph, as the manager of the Miracle Mets, was ...

3/1957- Gil Hodges- Brookyln Dodgers. UPI color slides. Bettmann Archive. Gil Hodges is the only baseball player who has been eligible for Baseball Hall of Fame induction by the Veterans Committee ...

Gil Hodges has an added line to a resume that includes U.S. Marine, All-Star first baseman and World Series-winning manager: He's a Hall of Famer.

New York Mets manager Gil Hodges (r.) embraces Casey Stengel (the organization's first manager) ...More after Hodges guided the club to the 1969 World Series title.. Getty Images. Cleon Jones, one ...

Gil Hodges’ dad made a living in the danger and darkness of Southern Indiana coal mines that would eventually lead to his death. He desperately wanted his sons to have a better, safer life ...

Gil Hodges was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday. Yes, he was, by his own description, a Hoosier hick born and bred, when he first set foot in Ebbets Field.

Five months after Gil Hodges died, the Indiana General Assembly dedicated a bridge in his honor. Like the man it was named for, it was not an extravagant structure: Just 900 feet long, built for ...