The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum officially welcomed three new members on Sunday. This year’s induction ceremony in Cooperstown, New York, honored the 2026 Hall of Fame class, led by 10-time Gold Glover Andruw Jones. The three-person Hall of Fame class is the smallest since just two players, Fred McGriff and Scott Rolen, were inducted in 2022.
To summarize this year’s Hall of Fame class:
- Outfielders Carlos Beltrán and Andruw Jones were voted into the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers Association of America.
- Second baseman Jeff Kent was voted into Cooperstown by the Hall of Fame’s Contemporary Baseball Era Committee.
- The three new members bring the Hall’s count to 354, of which 281 are players.
As always, the Hall of Fame induction ceremony took place on the lawn outside the Clark Sports Center in Cooperstown. Thousands of baseball fans were in attendance.
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