When it’s all said and done, many of us hope that our lives will not be defined by only a title or achievement. Legacies are crafted by countless moments, including the small ones witnessed by a handful of people.

CC Sabathia remembers being awed by his first visit to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y., saying he still gets goosebumps when he thinks about those hours wandering through the plaque gallery several years ago.

Cooperstown is calling the 6-time All-Star and 2007 Cy Young award winner, whose 3.093 strikeouts are third-most in history by a left-handed pitcher.

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Sabathia retired after the 2019 season, ending a career that featured a Cy Young Award in 2007 and a World Series title with the Yankees in 2009. The lefty eventually registered 251 wins and 3,093

Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for baseball’s Hall of Fame, falling one vote shy of unanimous when he was elected along with CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner.

Sabathia went into his free agency thinking he would come out an Angel. Instead, he was blown away by the Yankees’ seven-year, $161 million offer and ended up eliminating the Angels in the Championship Series. He allowed just two runs in two starts, striking out 12 over 16 innings as he was named the ALCS MVP.

CC Sabathia adds another C to his name now, for Cooperstown, now that he becomes the latest great Yankee to become a first-ballot Hall of Famer.

Former Milwaukee Brewers left-handed pitcher CC Sabathia was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame today, receiving 86.8% of the vote in his first year on the ballot.

Come July 27, CC Sabathia will forever be immortalized ... tossing 16 innings of two-run ball versus the Los Angeles Angels in the AL Championship Series. Those feats of excellence and durability ...

Sabathia knew he’d be ejected. That meant he ended up just two innings shy of hitting an incentive bonus in his contract that would have paid him $500,000. (The Yankees paid him anyway.) 2009 ...

Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for baseball’s Hall of Fame, falling one vote shy of unanimous when he was elected Tuesday along with CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner.