Baseball Hall of Fame 2025 Induction Ceremony Start Time and TV Info
The greatest of all time will take their place in immortality Sunday when the Baseball Hall of Fame inducts its class of 2025.
The sport's most prolific hitter, a workhorse starting pitcher, a tenacious closer, a two-time World Series champion, and one of the game's most influential hitters will take their moment in the spotlight in Cooperstown.
Who are they and when can fans attend or tune into the ceremony?
Find out in this preview.
Ceremony and Viewing Info
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Date: Sunday, July 27
Time: 1:30 p.m. EST
Location: Clark Sports Center in Cooperstown, New York
TV: MLB Network
Streaming: MLB.com
The Class of 2025: Modern Era
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CC Sabathia (Pitcher, New York Yankees)
One of the greatest lefties in the game's history, not to mention one of its most durable. Sabathia was a workhorse of a pitcher, throwing 150 innings every year from his rookie campaign in 2001 through the 2013 season.
Injury sidelined him in 2014, but when he returned to the mound the following year, he returned to form, eclipsing 150 in three of his final five seasons.
A six-time All-Star, 2007 AL Cy Young winner, 2009 ALCS MVP and World Series champion, and a member of the Cleveland Guardians Hall of Fame, the Valleo, California native struck out 7.8 batters per nine innings and hurled 38 complete games.
Entering the Majors at the age of 20, amid lofty expectations, all Sabathia did was eclipse every one of them on his way to the Hall of Fame, with 3,093 strikeouts, a .600 winning percentage, and 251 wins.
He was, arguably, the most important player on the New York Yankees during their return to prominence in 2009, a World Series-winning season, going 3-1 with an ERA of .198 in five starts. He enters immortality sporting the Bronx Bombers' cap, but started his career with Cleveland and had a brief stint in Milwaukee.
Ichiro Suzuki (Right Fielder, Seattle Mariners)
Suzuki is, statistically, the greatest hitter in the long and illustrious history of baseball, accumulating 4,367 hits across Major League Baseball and Nippon Professional Baseball.
Strictly in the Majors, the outfielder accumulated a career batting average of .311 and an on-base percentage of .355, hit 111 home runs, and stole 509 bases across 2,653 games.
A durable, reliable player who played at least 161 games in eight of nine seasons from 2004 through 2012, he achieved his greatest success in Seattle, but also sported the pinstripes of the Yankees and played for the Miami Marlins in the waning days of his playing career.
A 10-time All-Star and 10-time Gold Glover, he is a more than deserving first ballot entrant and should have been a unanimous inductee, but received 393 out of a possible 394 votes.
Perhaps most importantly, Suzuki's success opened the door for other Japanese players to take the chance and embark on a career in America.
His level of consistent excellence announced to the world that Japanese players, outside of pitchers, could succeed on the sport's grandest stage and laid the groundwork for the best of this era, such as Shohei Ohtani and Seiya Suzuki, to enjoy the careers that they have to this point.
Billy Wagner (Pitcher, Houston Astros)
The legendary Astro overcame a childhood injury that forced him to throw left-handed to become one of the most intimidating closers of all time.
A seven-time All-Star with the Astros, Phillies, Mets, and Braves, with a stop in Boston to boot, he ranks eighth in career saves with 422. Throughout his 16 Major League seasons, he posted a 2.31 ERA, a 0.998 WHIP, and accumulated a career WAR of 27.8.
Wagner struck out 11.9 batters per nine innings and allowed less than one home run in that span (0.8). He led the NL in games finished in 2003 and 2005.
An elite closer, he signed the largest deal for a player at his position when he signed with New York. It was there that he got over a playoff hump, advancing past the first round for the first time in his career before eventually bowing out in an NLCS loss to the Cardinals.
Wagner takes his place in baseball immortality after spending a decade on the ballot. The wait was worth it, though, as he becomes just the ninth relief pitcher to take his place in the Hall of Fame.
The Class of 2025: Classic Era
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Dick Allen (First Baseman, Philadelphia Phillies)
The 1964 National League Rookie of the Year shook off 41 errors at third base to take the sport by storm with his incredible hitting, amassing 80 extra-base hits that included a league-leading 13 triples. According to Baseball Reference, he was valued at 8.8 wins above replacement as a rookie, the greatest WAR of his career, and earned MVP votes.
The official site of the National Baseball Hall of Fame wrote:
"From 1964-69 – during one of the most pitching-dominated eras in big league history – Allen averaged better than 29 home runs and 90 RBI per season. He famously used a 40-ounce bat, driving balls mammoth distances with his unique bat speed."
A seven-time All-Star, the 1972 American League MVP, a two-time AL home run king and league RBI leader, as well as a member of the Phillies Wall of Fame and one of just nine players to have their jersey retired by the organization, Allen one of the sports most important and influential hitters of all time, introducing a rare combination of undeniable power and unseen bat speed.
He enters the Hall posthumously, elected by the Classic Baseball Era Committee, with 351 home runs, 1,119 RBI, and a career .534 slugging percentage.
Dave Parker (Right Fielder, Pittsburgh Pirates)
Parker's Hall of Fame biography reads, "For a time, Dave Parker was the undisputed best player in Major League Baseball," and it is not difficult to see why.
A seven-time All-Star, NL MVP (1978), three-time Gold Glover, three-time Silver Slugger, two-time NL batting champion, and NL RBI leader, he was so good that he was already a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds Halls of Fame.
A career .290 hitter with 2,712 hits and 339 home runs, he achieved the pinnacle in professional baseball, winning the World Series with the Pirates in 1979 and the Oakland A's in 1989.
Possessing one of the greatest arms in the sport and a bat that came up big in the most significant moments, he crafted an 18-year career of excellence that saw him earn MVP votes in nine of those seasons.
Parker lived to see himself elected to the Hall of Fame as part of the Classic Baseball Committee, an honor long overdue for one of the greatest of his generation.
While he passed away on June 28, 2025, short of enjoying the spotlight that would have come with his speech in Cooperstown, his greatness will live forever in Cooperstown.
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