Beltrán, Jones and Kent Enter Hall of Fame as Joe Buck Claims 2026 Frick Award
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Updated · The New York Times · Jul 24
Beltrán, Jones and Kent Enter Hall of Fame as Joe Buck Claims 2026 Frick Award
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jul 24
Summary
Cooperstown welcomed Carlos Beltrán, Andruw Jones and Jeff Kent into the Baseball Hall of Fame, while broadcaster Joe Buck received the 2026 Ford C. Frick Award.
Beltrán’s induction also highlighted his off-field impact: he pushed MLB and the players’ union to require Spanish-language translators for every team, a policy adopted in 2016.
Jones, owner of 10 Gold Gloves and 434 homers, pointed to his walk-off walk in the 1999 NLCS against the Mets as the defining moment of his career.
Buck, 57, became the first member of a father-son pair in the Hall’s broadcasters’ exhibit after calling 23 World Series for Fox from 1996 to 2021.
The class also reinforced Cooperstown’s deep Yankees ties, with Beltrán and Jones raising the total of former Yankees inducted over the last 10 ceremonies to 11.