Dave Parker, who died a month before he was to be inducted, and Dick Allen got into the Hall posthumously after being voted in by the classics committee.

Masataka Yoshida was excited to see Suzuki become the first Japanese player inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - On an overcast Sunday in this charming village, thousands of fans from the Far East to the East Coast, from Texas to the Midwest to the Pacific Northwest, gathered to usher five icons of the game into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.