{"id":190075,"date":"2020-01-22T07:29:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T13:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=190075"},"modified":"2020-01-22T07:29:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T13:29:59","slug":"jeter-walker-inducted-baseball-hof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=190075","title":{"rendered":"Jeter, Walker inducted, Baseball HOF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNDATED (AP) \u2014 Derek Jeter and Larry Walker will be giving speeches in Cooperstown, New York, this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Jeter was a near-unanimous selection for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame. The former Yankees shortstop and longtime team captain appeared on all-but one of the 397 ballots cast by the Baseball Writers&#8217; Association of America. Ex-teammate Mariano Rivera is the Hall\u2019s only unanimous first-ballot selection.<\/p>\n<p>Walker will join Jeter on the induction stage after being elected in his 10th year on the ballot. Walker was named on 76.57% of the ballots, just above the required 75%.<\/p>\n<p>Jeter won five World Series while batting .310 with 260 home runs and 1,311 RBIs in a 20-year career spent entirely with the Yankees. Walker spent 17 seasons in the majors, hitting .313 with 383 home runs and 1,311 RBIs for the Expos, Rockies and Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p>Pitcher Curt Schilling was third with 278 votes to fall short of the 75% mark in his eighth ballot appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNDATED (AP) \u2014 Derek Jeter and Larry Walker will be giving speeches in Cooperstown, New York, this summer. Jeter was a near-unanimous selection for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame. The former Yankees shortstop and longtime team captain appeared on all-but one of the 397 ballots cast by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190076,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190075\/revisions\/190076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}