US EditionNewest HOF inductees Beltrán, Jones visit Cooperstown
Beltrán and Jones celebrated their Hall of Fame election with a Cooperstown visit; Beltrán addressed his role in the 2017 Astros scandal and received 84.2% of BBWAA votes.
- Two days after the phone call, Carlos Beltrán and Andruw Jones arrived at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and will be inducted July 26 at the Clark Sports Center.
- After the BBWAA announced results, Carlos Beltrán clinched election with 358 of 425 votes for 84.2%, clearing the 75% threshold by 39 votes, while Andruw Jones earned his Hall nod as the first player born in Curacao on his ninth try.
- Beltrán's career totals include 2,700 hits, 435 homers, 1,582 runs, and 312 stolen bases, placing him among an elite group, and he said, `Perfection is part of no one's life`.
- The pair walked the gallery admiring 351 past inductees, and Beltrán pointed out names to his family while Jones photographed plaques of Braves teammates.
- Acknowledging the 2017 scandal, Carlos Beltrán said the Houston Astros 'took it to a different level' and insisted the episode does not define him, after being the only player named in the Major League Baseball report on Thursday.
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By ALEX RUBINSON COOPERSTOWN, New York, USA (AP) — Carlos Beltrán’s wife was watching the vote tracker for Ryan Thibodaux’s Hall of Fame with the intensity of an investor following the markets. “My wife woke up every morning and said, ‘Come on,’ and I asked her, ‘What happened?’,” she said on Thursday during her first visit to the Hall of Fame since her election. “She said, ‘We got five votes,’ and then said, ‘Oh my God, what is going on? We los…
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