While David Ortiz sailed in as a first-ballot Hall of Famer, the year’s other new inductees had to wait for decades four did not live to see the honor.
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) David Ortiz promised to speak from the heart. As usual, Big Papi delivered. His megawatt smile tinged with a tad of emotion, the former Boston Red Sox slugger was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday after his daughter Alexandra sang the national anthiem and was humbled by his surroundings.