Baseball Hall of Fame 2021: Preview, Viewing Info for Induction Ceremony

For the year 2021, four players from the class of 2020 will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

Wednesday's ceremony will include Derek Jeter, who was named on 396 of 397 ballots and just missed being elected unanimously by one vote. One more vote and he would have matched the feat of former teammate Mariano Rivera, who is the only unanimous Hall of Fame selection.

In addition to the New York Yankees shortstop and icon, Colorado Rockies right fielder Larry Walker will be inducted after his last year of eligibility, along with St. Louis Cardinals switch-hitter Ted Simmons and former executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association Marvin Miller, who was voted in to the Hall posthumously.

Jeter and Walker were voted in by the Baseball Writer's Association of America, while the Modern Baseball Era Committee voted in Simmons and Miller.

Viewing Info

When: Wednesday, Sept. 8

Time: 1:30 p.m. 

TV: MLB Network

Live stream: www.baseballhall.org

Preview

Mr. November

It's not easy to get to Cooperstown, but for a player like Jeter, who earned the nickname "Mr. November" for his prowess in the postseason, if wasn't a matter of if he'd get in, it was a matter of when and by how much.

Jeter had an iron-clad case as a first-ballot Hall of Famer with a career that included an incredible 3,465 hits (sixth all time), a .310 batting average, five World Series Championships, five Gold Gloves and 14 All-Star appearances, so it was a head-scratcher that one writer left him off his ballot.

Still, there's no shame in getting 99.7 percent of the vote. It's not 100 percent like Rivera, but it's still higher than his contemporary, Ken Griffey Jr., who garnered 98.84 percent of the ballot when he was voted in back in 2016.

Also known as "The Captain," Jeter played his entire career with the Yankees, had some of the most memorable and indelible moments in league history while wearing the pinstripes and was perhaps the most marketable player in all of Major League Baseball.

Probably one of the biggest moments in his storied career was the day he became the first Yankee to get 3,000 hits.

It was on July 9, 2011 in front of a home crowd at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx and it was a third-inning homer to left field off a curveball from Tampa Bay Devil Rays pitcher David Price.

"I thought his 3,000th hit would kind of be his inside-out, line drive to right field," Price told Ken Davidoff of the New York Post. "That’s not the way it went. It was a curveball that didn't really do much of anything, and he hit a ball to left-center. Off the bat, I knew it. He rounded the bases and everybody came out of both dugouts, so I kind of just walked over to the visiting dugout on the third-base line and got some water and toweled myself out to let everybody pay him their respects.

"He was one of my favorite players growing up. At the time, if any player in baseball was going to hit their 3,000th hit and do it off of me, I would've wanted it to be Derek Jeter and for it to be in New York. It was a very special moment for him and Yankees fans, and I was OK to be a part of that. I wish we would've won, but I think he went 5-for-5. It just kind of sums up his career, that day."