Baseball Hall of Fame 2024: Induction Ceremony Start Time and TV Info

Baseball Hall of Fame 2024: Induction Ceremony Start Time and TV Info0 of 4

Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images

Four of baseball’s greatest will take their place among the sport’s immortals Sunday afternoon in Cooperstown with the induction of the 2024 Baseball Hall of Fame.

Veteran players, most synonymous with the teams they will enter the Hall as members of, headline this year’s class.

Adrian Beltré, Todd Helton, Joe Mauer, and manager Jim Leyland will enter an exclusive fraternity of the best to ever set foot on a baseball diamond.

Ahead of their well-earned honor, find out why they have been deemed worthy to live forever in the Hall’s annals with this look back at their iconic careers.

Taking Their Place Among the Immortals3 of 4

Doug Pensinger/Getty Images

This year’s class may not have that one, era-defining star but it features three players who had long careers of sustained excellence, two of whom played for one team their entire careers.

Helton joined the Rockies as part of the 1995 MLB Draft and spent his entire career in Colorado, where he was a five-time All-Star, a four-time Silver Slugger, and three-time Gold Glove winner. He also received MVP consideration six times.

With a career slash line of .316/.414/.539 to go with 2519 hits and 369 home runs, Helton belongs in the Hall and is, arguably, the best player in Rockies history. He joins Larry Walker as the only other inductee in the organization’s history.

Minnesota catcher Mauer is a six-time All-Star, five-time Silver Slugger, and three-time Gold Glove recipient, received MVP consideration five times and won the award in a career-best 2008 season.

Mauer tallied 2123 hits, 143 home runs, and a slash line of .306/.388/.439 en route to his induction on Sunday.

Beltré played 21 Major League seasons and according to Baseball Reference averaged 175 hits, 26 home runs, 94 RBI, and seven stolen bases. His slash line was .286/.339/.480.

During his career with the Dodgers, Mariners, Red Sox, and Rangers, the 2024 inductee was a four-time All-Star, a four-time Silver Slugger, a five-time Gold Glove winner, and a seven-time MVP candidate.

Jim Leyland: Management Excellence4 of 4

Taylor Baucom/MLB Photos via Getty Images

Like Beltré, Helton, and Mauer, Leyland’s career was one of consistency.

He spent 11 years with the Pittsburgh Pirates, where he coached a young Barry Bonds, winning .496 percent of his games.

Fresh off his run with that organization, he became the skipper for the 1997 Florida Marlins, where he won .568 percent of his games and capped off an improbable season by winning his first (and only) World Series title, guiding them to a win over an electric Cleveland squad.

He would last just one more season in Florida, a disappointing one, before leaving for one sub-.500 season in Colorado.

He would not manage for seven years before taking over the manager position with the Detroit Tigers. In his first season in the Motor City, Leyland would take a team that had won just 71 games and lead them to the World Series as the winner of the American League pennant.

Leyland would return to the World Series in 2012, once again winning the pennant.

While he would not win either of those series, he did establish himself as a winning manager for the Tigers.

That stint in Detroit helped establish him as a Hall of Fame skipper who could assume leadership of a sub-par team and turn them into a World Series contender.