The Hall of Fame had plenty of chances to induct Allen ... Cooperstown made the same mistake with Minnie Minoso a few years later. He died at 91 in 2015, just a few months after being denied ...

But Minoso almost certainly does belong in the Hall of Fame. It's hard to say exactly when he'd have first played regularly in the major leagues if not for the color line, but it stands to reason ...

When Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese-born player to be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, he became the ...