It's Baseball Hall of Fame induction weekend in Cooperstown.
The Parade of Legends steps off Saturday night at 6 p.m.
The induction ceremony is Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at the Clark Sports Center. This year's induction class includes CC Sabathia, Ichiro Suzuki, Billy Wagner, the late Dave Parker and the late Dick Allen.
Sabathia, one of the top starting pitchers of his era, won 251 games over 19 seasons in Cleveland, Milwaukee and New York. He won a Cy Young Award, was a six-time All-Star and was a member of the World Series-winning 2009 New York Yankees.
Ichiro, perhaps the greatest Japanese import in Major League Baseball history, amassed 3,089 hits in 19 MLB seasons, largely spent with the Seattle Mariners. A 10-time All-Star and two-time batting champion, he won both the American League Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player awards in 2001 — at age 27, having played his first nine seasons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. All told, he had 4,367 career hits in professional baseball, more than MLB all-time hit leader Pete Rose.
Wagner, a seven-time All-Star relief pitcher, spent the first nine seasons of his 16-season career with the Houston Astros. He had 422 career saves, with a single-season high of 44 in 2003.
Parker, who died June 28 at age 74, was a two-time World Series winner (with the 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates and 1989 Oakland Athletics), a seven-time All-Star, an All-Star MVP winner, a three-time Gold Glove winner and the 1978 National League MVP. "The Cobra" hit 339 home runs over 19 seasons in Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Oakland, Milwaukee, the then-California Angels and Toronto.
Allen, who died in 2020, hit 351 home runs over 15 seasons between 1963-77, playing for Philadelphia, St. Louis, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Chicago White Sox and Oakland. With the Phillies, he won the 1964 National League Rookie of the Year award, and he was the 1972 American League MVP with the White Sox.