Brooklyn’s Hodges finally getting enshrined
Ex-Dodgers first baseman, Mets manager honored at last
It took 35 tries when maybe it should have only taken one.
But the late Gil Hodges, a World Series-winning first baseman with the Brooklyn Dodgers and manager of the 1969 Amazin’ Mets, finally got the call his family had been waiting decades for Sunday.
The eight-time All-Star and three-time Gold Glove-winner at first base was one of six players selected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., where he, Buck O’Neill, Minnie Minoso, Tony Oliva, Jim Kaat and Bud Fowler will be inducted on July 24.