Former reliever Billy Wagner broke down in tears when he got the call that he had been elected into the hall. In a video posted on X by sports writer Jose de Jesus Ortiz, Wagner leaned against a ...

Billy Wagner, faced with his last chance at earning enshrinement to baseball’s hall of immortals in Cooperstown, N.Y., finally vaulted the 75% mark to punch his ticket to athletic immortality ...

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NEW YORK -- Billy Wagner may have been an Astro and a Phillie at least as much as he was a Met, but that doesn’t erase the fact that he was, indeed, a Met. Wagner was an important one, too, spending ...

Wagner erupted in tears as he received the news of his induction during a phone call with Hall of Fame representatives in Cooperstown. Our Esquina's Jose de Jesus Ortiz was alongside Wagner in the ...

And while Ichiro Suzuki and CC Sabathia got in on their first ballots, Billy Wagner had a longer wait. The longtime Astros closer spent the last 10 years on the ballot, with 2025 representing his ...

A judge ordered Lindsay Clancy, a former Connecticut resident charged with strangling and killing her three children in her Massachusetts home two years ago, to undergo a psychiatric examination ...

Once more, for baseball immortality, Billy Wagner closed it out. Wagner, the dominant closer who played a two-season sliver of his 16-year career with the Phillies, got elected Tuesday night to the ...

It was a long time coming, but Billy Wagner finally closed it out. And he couldn’t keep the emotions from flowing. The seven-time All-Star, in his final year of eligibility, was elected into the ...

In his 10th and final year on the ballot, former Mets closer Billy Wagner finally garnered enough votes to take his rightful place in Cooperstown in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Along with ...

Wagner, 53, reportedly appeared on 82.5 percent of ballots, easily clearing the 75 percent mark needed for induction. He earned a 73.8-percent voting share in 2024, up from his 68.1-percent voting ...

An oblique injury has kept Orlando Magic star forward Franz Wagner out since early December (he last played on Dec. 6), but it appears that a return could be soon for the former lottery pick.