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.

CC Sabathia was officially inducted into the Hall of Fame on Sunday helping to headline a class also including Ichiro Suzuki, Billy Wagner, Dave Parker and Dick Allen.

Suzuki referened the lone writer who did not give him a Hall of Fame vote, saying that a previous invitation to dinner had now "expired."