Thankfully, Tony Oliva is alive to see this day. Oliva, the 83-year-old former Minnesota Twins All-Star, on Sunday joined five others – fellow Cuban Orestes "Minnie" Miñoso, former Twins ...

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – Tony Pedro Oliva Lopez — that's what was on his plaque — stepped to the podium and looked out at a crowd of about 35,000 baseball fans. Then he noticed the rolling fields ...

Tony Oliva is going into the Hall of Fame next year. The baseball great spoke with KHOU 11's Daniel Gotera about life, baseball and their family's connection.

Thankfully, Tony Oliva is alive to see this day. Oliva, the 83-year-old former Minnesota Twins All-Star, on Sunday joined five others – fellow Cuban Orestes "Minnie" Miñoso, former Twins ...

Tony Oliva, center, photographed on his 75th birthday with the "Irish Mafia," including Dan Murphy, bottom center, and his daughter Erin over his right shoulder. If somebody established a Hall of ...

Tony Oliva was magnificent to watch as a hitter. The rest was OK, too; good speed and judgment as well as a strong throwing arm in right field. But as a hitter, the images remain for those of us ...

Tony Oliva has been through this before, all the excitement, all the nerves, all the anticipation of waiting to find out if he would be enshrined in in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

That version of Tony Oliva — the humble, likable crusher of baseballs — flashed across the sky too quickly. Oliva was one helluva player from 1964-71.

Tony Oliva — 1971.337/.369/.546, 154 OPS+, 518 PA. Bad knees kept Oliva from being a Hall of Famer. He had three surgeries in his 20s, gradually losing speed and range, and then on June 29, 1971 ...

Tony’s daughter, Anita, was in a chair next to him and said: “I think that’s why he’s back in here today.” Oliva nodded and said: “That and watching the Timberwolves game . My blood ...

The Twins say former legends Kent Hrbek and Tony Oliva recently suffered strokes, but both are expected to make a full recovery. Hrbek, 64, won two World Series with the Twins. Oliva, 86, spent 14 ...