National Baseball Hall of Fame

An estimated 35,000 baseball fans attended the 2022 National Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at the Clark Sports Center Sunday.

This year's festival, curated by Artistic Director Margaret Parsons and Programmer Joe Katz, features independent documentaries and narrative features and shorts that reflect the theme “Rise”.

After initially scraping plans for a second consecutive year to host an outdoor ceremony to honoring new members like Derek Jeter, the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown

Keep in mind, because of the pandemic, the 2020 festivities that surround the annual ceremony were called off. Dereker Jeter and Larry Walker headlined last year's class, but their inductions are now scheduled to be commemorated this July.

The decision was almost unanimous

Miller is still alive; Simmons passed in 2012

It's a big weekend in Cooperstown.

To retire following this year's induction ceremony

The two were voted in Sunday by the 16-member Today’s Game Era Committee

The annual Frederick Ivor-Campbell 19th Century Base Ball Conference is today at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown.