Ken Griffey Jr. was one of the ... was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2016 on 99.3% of ballots — then an MLB record since broken by Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera — has been ...

Ken Griffey Jr. is one of the greatest players in Major League Baseball history, ... Mariano Rivera (100 percent in 2019) and Derek Jeter (99.74 percent in 2020) ...

Ken Griffey Jr. was inducted into the Hall of Fame back in 2016. ... Only one out of the 278 players in the Hall of Fame has ...

Three years after Ken Griffey Jr. fell three votes shy of a unanimous induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame and set the record with 99.3% of the vote, Mariano Rivera has a chance to establish ...

Ken Griffey Jr. is the closest to unanimous Hall of Fame induction, but Mariano Rivera could challenge that. (Getty Images) Ken Griffey Jr. — 99.32 percent in 2016 ...

Longtime New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera has been unanimously voted into the Hall of Fame. ... breaking Ken Griffey Jr.'s 99.3% all-time record for highest percentage of the vote set in 2016.

Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb weren’t good enough. Not Nolan Ryan, Cal Ripken Jr. or even most recently Ken Griffey Jr. Finally, though, the stigma of someone being unanimously elected to baseball’s ...

Ken Griffey Jr. came up with the idea of wearing No. 42 on April 15th. On the first Jackie Robinson Day when the number was worn league-wide (2009), Junior hit his 400th homer as a Mariner. # ...

Mariano Rivera has done something no one else in baseball history has ever done — not Willie Mays, not Babe Ruth, not Stan Musial, not Tom Seaver, not even Ken Griffey Jr. Rivera, the legendary ...

Ken Griffey Jr. had been the previous highest vote ... Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees poses for a photo during Spring Training Media Photo Day at George M. Steinbrenner Field on ...

Reporting from NEW YORK — For 82 years, the Baseball Hall of Fame existed without a unanimous inductee. All of the game’s eligible greats, from Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth to Willie Mays and Hank ...