Wisconsins Joe Thomas was 33 , but he stayed at left tackle and become a first-ballot Hall of Famer. 19 (John Riggins), 21 (O.J. In 2015, Grant was added as a game analyst for the NCAA Final Four and National Championship game. And I remember the hard times, the struggles. 29 -- and made the AL All-Star team in all but his final season. Sign up to receive our daily Morning Lineup to stay in the know about the latest trending topics around Major League Baseball. My first memories watching Grant Hill was back in 1991, as a very young and talented member of the Duke Blue Devils. The outstanding numbers he put up in Detroit were far in the rear-view mirror for many fans, and eventually Hills run in Orlando would be labeled a disappointment. Derek JeterClass of 2020There was never a doubt that Jeter was going to be a first-ballot Hall of Famer. Pistons Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas sees the comparison as well and said as much back when Hill was announced as one of the members of the Class of 2018. ), (For fun: Hill earned $456,000 per regular season appearance in Orlando. Where that comparison falls short comes when realizing that James ranks fourth in all-time scoring average and poured in over 27 a night by just his second season. After injuries forced him to the bullpen midway through his career, the 1996 NL Cy Young Award winner -- who twice led the NL in innings pitched -- went on to wow as Atlanta's closer for three and a half seasons, setting an NL record with 55 saves in 2002. But then when this all came about and I got that call (from the Hall of Fame), you realize that you might have suppressed some things. Announced in December, two distinct modifications have been made to the election process. Things like All-Star selections, championships and league-wide finishes on various stat leaderboards all factor into the equation. Im in Detroit and youve got Elton Brand and Shane Battier and Corey Maggette and that whole crew and Jeff Capel, Im not that far removed in terms of my age differential from those guys. Tony GwynnClass of 2007In terms of pure hitting acumen and ability, Gwynn is recognized as perhaps the greatest ever. No one should expect to make money from the picks and predictions discussed on this website. During those broadcasts, Grant opines on issues of the past week in the NBA and provides contemporaneous commentary on that night's 10-12 NBA games while in progress. Theres a decent chance hed in the Hall of Fame, anyways. Hills best season came at the age of 24. 3 draft pick of the 1961 Vikings. When reminiscing about Nash, well always remember the summer of 2004 as the moment the stars aligned to transform a very good, All-Star caliber point guard into a first-ballot Hall of Famer. Rivera is the all-time leader in saves with 652. Hill also served as his teams primary scorer, leading the Pistons in each of his first six seasons while topping out at 25.8 points per game his final season in Detroit. Cobb's 98.2 percent vote was the Hall's highest until Tom Seaver eclipsed him in 1992. The 10-time All-Star launched 541 home runs, plus 17 more in the postseason, and posted a ridiculous 1.372 World Series OPS during three Red Sox championship runs. He piled up 9,393 points, 3,417 rebounds and 2,720 assists in the first six seasons of his career. LOS ANGELES - The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced today, at NBA All-StarWeekend, eight phenomenal players, three standout But I want to be a first-ballot Hall of Famer, Ramsey said. The first time Hodges was on the BBWAA ballot was for the 1969 Hall of Fame class. He spent his entire 19-year career with the Orioles and won the AL Cy Young Award three times. The reason I brought that up is because I had this conversation with Dominique Wilkins the year he went into the Hall of Fame and he admitted that hed done a poor job recognizing his significance while he was playing. All picks and predictions are suggestions only. Hill: Its crazy. Tom GlavineClass of 2014Like Maddux, Glavine made his mark through command. In the ESPN 30 for 30 Films documentary This Magic Moment, Penny Hardaway states at one point that he retired seven years too late. There arent many people who get anointed to carry the crown of being the face of the league. Hill lives in Orlando with his wife, Tamia, a 7-time Grammy-nominated singer, and their two daughters. He was enshrined to the Hall with a 98.5 percent vote. I started getting letters from colleges and that summer and then my sophomore year is when things really took off. He won a World Series with the Mets in 1969. But at that point you are measuring yourself against the so-called best in the country and not just in your neighborhood or your neck of the woods. This will allow the Honors Committee to evaluate a larger body of work for thosecoaches nominated. Hill: Its funny, when youre in it and particularly for me post-injury, those last nine years, it seemed like it was a long career. Seaver's 98.8 percent Hall vote is the highest for a starting pitcher. Martinez's .687 winning percentage trails Whitey Ford for the highest in the Modern Era (since 1900). Smoltz is the only player in MLB history with at least 200 wins and 150 saves. Grant Hill was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame as a first-ballot member of the 2018 class. Joe MorganClass of 1990Morgan won his first NL MVP Award in 1975 after hitting .327 with 17 homers, 67 steals and 132 walks -- and only got better the following season, when he won the NL MVP Award again. In perhaps his final chapter as a pro, Hill currently is playing with the Phoenix Suns, where he is meshing well with Shaq, Steve Nash and company. His .977 career OPS is second to Mike Trout among center fielders, and his 536 homers are third among center fielders behind Willie Mays and Ken Griffey Jr. Warren SpahnClass of 1973The majority of Spahn's career came after his service in World War II, for which he was awarded a Purple Heart. Christy MathewsonClass of 1936The two-time Triple Crown winner and his famous "fadeaway" screwball baffled hitters throughout a 17-year career that set the standard for pitching excellence, during which he won at least 30 games four times and collected 373 career wins -- still the NL record in the Modern Era. So that was a huge confidence booster. Nolan RyanClass of 1999Ryan played a record 27 years in the Majors, pitching for the Mets, Angels, Astros and Rangers, and he is baseball's all-time leader in no-hitters (seven) and strikeouts (5,714). NBA.com is part of Warner Media, LLCs Turner Sports & Entertainment Digital Network, *Translations are limited to select pages, There arent many people who get anointed to carry the crown of being the face of the league. He won 13 straight Gold Glove Awards from 1980-92 and was an All-Star in all but one season in that stretch. Willie McCoveyClass of 1986McCovey terrorized the NL for the majority of 22 seasons, leading the Senior Circuit in homers three times and winning the 1969 NL MVP Award. WebRT @CalFootball: In honor of this years NFL Draft in Kansas City, lets throw it back to 1997 when our first-ballot Hall of Famer @TonyGonzalez88 was selected 13th overall by the And he was going to Georgetown, so my mom ending up getting season tickets and my mom and I, we had two tickets, and we would go to all these games at the [Capital] Center and she became a huge Georgetown fan. When I was in Phoenix, my daughter Myla would go on YouTube and look at old highlights and she said, oh dad, you werent always a scrub. And you repair your ego a little bit, you look at it and go, oh yeah, I was pretty good at one time. Ive had more of those sort of moments now that reflect and get a chance to look back over the years to see some of the things I was fortunate enough to do. Your default site has been set for 7 days. WebErected high on a hill above the Gunpowder River Valley, Perry Hall Mansion dominated life in northeastern Baltimore County in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Rivera won both World Series MVP and American League Championship Series MVP in his career, as well as All-Star Game MVP in 2013, his final season and final All-Star Game. NBA.com: You said there were two moments, what was the other one? Now you get to the mid-2000s and you fast forward realizing that Im old enough to be a parent of some of these guys now and the kids like Jayson Tatum and Harry Giles and even R.J. Barrett, they are all sort of aware of what I did and my career at Duke, and certainly the ups and the downs of my professional career and even the television work keeps me somewhat relevant in their eyes, but its the parents who know me better than the kids. Once frustrated by injuries, Hill's focus is now on the good of his career. Sounds awfully familiar. After the 1999-00 season, Grant Hill and Detroit were both ready to go in a different direction. During his senior season he crushed the course record at Herring Run Hall of After 12 successful seasons in Baltimore, Murray helped Cleveland to its first World Series in 41 years in '95, then returned to the Orioles for a postseason run in '96. We see a lot of young players like that these days, guys who see LeBron James and Kevin Durant as the players they want to model their games after, the guys they want to play like. That was the most important thing for me. 2023 Duke Athletics. NBA.com is part of Warner Media, LLCs Turner Sports & Entertainment Digital Network. Regardless of where you stand on Bryant, its undeniable that hes generally viewed higher on the pecking order than Hill when it comes to pure ability between the lines. You dont have time to dwell on what did or didnt happen in the past. Peak ability comparable to Kobe, the pre-cursor to LeBron and a likely Hall of Famer just six seasons in Grant Hill, take a bow. But it was one of those things where the idea of it just seemed so impossible, you know. Tom SeaverClass of 1992Seaver played 20 seasons in the big leagues, with his most notable turn coming with the Mets from 1967-77, during which he won the NL Rookie of the Year Award, three Cy Young Awards and a World Series title ('69). Fair or not, its part of his legacy. His 555 Hall of Fame votes in 2014 remain the most ever. Had it not been for the three seasons he spent overseas, Spahn -- the winningest left-handed pitcher of all time (363), a 17-time All-Star and a 13-time 20-game winner -- might have joined Cy Young and Walter Johnson in the 400-win club. The Honors Committee now has the challenging task of selecting this years Enshrinees, which we look forward to announcing at the NCAA Final Four in San Antonio.. And maybe Im getting too deep with this, but the Hall of Fame is very validating for me and I didnt realize how much I needed it, how much I needed that recognition that I dont always see what I did back in the day, back in the 90s. Hill exploded in his rookie, year, where he averaged 20 points, six boards and five assists a game on his way to sharing the rookie of the year with Jason Kidd. If you were amazed by Curry's record-setting performance on Sunday, let's just say you weren't the only one. DURHAM -- Duke men's basketball hall of famer Grant Hill is one of seven new members to the Duke University Boardof Trustees, as university officials announced the He also earned National Defensive Player of the Year, ACC Player of the Year and first-team All-American honors as a Blue Devil. Your favorite teams, topics, and players all on your favorite mobile devices. Hill doubled as the leagues premier triple threat from the moment he arrived on the scene, tallying a league-high 24 of them in his first three seasons. Al KalineClass of 1980After not spending a day in the Minor Leagues, Kaline established himself as one of the league's best as the AL batting champion in 1955 at age 20, the youngest to win the crown, and he retired after 22 years in Detroit spanning a World Series, 10 Gold Glove Awards and 18 All-Star Games. And when Grant Hill came in he was basically anointed by the league, players and everyone, he was anointed to be the next face of the league, former Pistons great and Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas said after Hill was announced as one of the selections for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2018. With a resume that extends far beyond simply the NBA, Hills Hall of Fame candidacy was never in question. He was a stellar role player, great in every locker room he set foot in and one of the leagues best ambassadors off the court. His crossover wasnt like Allen Iversons, but for a 6-8 guy, it was like Iversons.. All rights reserved, The All 22 - An Inside Look at Duke Football, Duke Mourns Passing of Hall of Famer Dick Groat, Bench to Beat Cancer Raises Over $33,000 for Cancer Patients, Blue Devils Talk NCAA Fencing, March Madness & the Super Bowl, 50 For 50 Campaign Raises $3.9M for Duke Womens Athletics, Discover the Latest Stories in GoDuke The Magazine's February 2023 Edition. Now Im not just one of the top young players in the D.C. area, you know the DMV, but Im holding my own and putting up numbers with the best high school players in the DMV and around the country. The promise and optimism that surrounded Hill when he arrived in the league 14-years ago is gone, and even if he does win a NBA title this season, Grant will come up just short of a Hall of Fame career. The people who vote for the HoF fill in what are called ballots, where they decide who they think should be If you played out Grant Hills career 100 times, theres a world that exists where Kobe or Hill dominates the debate landscape. But as far as were concerned, in the Michael Jordan vs He said he didnt compartmentalize his career while he was in the midst of it because he was working so hard to reach a certain level that he just didnt have or make the time to take a step back and really appreciate what hed accomplished. Glavine helped kick-start the 1990s Braves dynasty as the anchor to its rotation in 1991, when the club became the first team in NL history to go from worst to first in consecutive seasons. And I wonder, too, if todays era and generation of players will have a different perspective, will they have more awareness because of social media. You just dont. Simpson) and 34 (Joe Perry) are also enshrined. And that humbles you real quick. But it never happened. Among the tens of thousands of players, managers, owners, executives and other personnel that have made their marks on baseball, only a select 340 are enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame, including 268 former Major League players. Hill: The context of why my parents felt that way is pretty interesting. I dont know, some of these kids were born after I was healthy in Detroit, and its crazy. There was never a doubt that Jeter was going to be a first-ballot Hall of Famer. Jones, who spent his entire 19-year career in Atlanta, was the cornerstone player in its run to a record 14 straight division titles. The four finalists from the Womens Screening Committee includes: players Katie Smith and Tina Thompson, coach Kim Mulkey, and Wayland Baptist University as a team. Each member is worthy of the distinction, and adding four former members of the Phoenix Suns (Grant Hill, Steve Nash, Jason Kidd, and Charlie Scott, is hugely important to our beloved franchise. These young guys werent born when we did what we did at Duke, but the impact is still felt and theres certainly a healthy respect for what we were able to accomplish as a group. Of course his scoring statistics were never as high as they were with the Pistons, and although lower than they were with Orlando, not that much lower (Hill averaged 19.9 points per-36 minutes for Detroit, 18.3 pp-36 with Orlando, and 14.5 pp-36 with Phoenix). Grant was named the 2017 recipient of the NCAA Presidents Gerald R. Ford Award, recognizing his significant leadership as an advocate for college sports. "Mr. Padre" was a lifetime .338 hitter over 10,232 plate appearances in a 20-year career, all with San Diego. Hill: You know, thats a really good question. And R.J. was on his visit and I think his parents were more excited to see me than he was. WebAdd his 3,674 yards rushing to his stunning passing totals and you have 50,677 yards almost 29 miles or 500 football fields of offensive progression. 2018 Hall of Fame: How good was Grant Hill. The six-time All-Star has since been topped in steals by only Rickey Henderson. We took Hills career through the 1999-00 season, crunched the numbers and found that Hill graded out with a 51% chance of making the Hall of Fame. WebThe Welsh first arrived in South Carolina in the late 1600s but many more settled during the Royal Period. An eight-time NL batting champion, Gwynn is one of few to sniff the .400 batting average mark since Ted Williams in 1941, clipping .394 in '94. Ryan received 98.8 percent of the votes during his first year on the ballot. Mr. Nice Guy, as I referred to him even then, was in town. Here's a look at every first-ballot Hall of Famer in baseball history. A winner of four straight Cy Young Awards and a finalist three other times, Maddux was the No. The following is a list of players who immediately made the semifinals and their current Hall of Fame status. In 2010, Halladay threw a perfect game on May 29 at the Marlins. For such a formerly huge star, the 2010 playoff run was the one and only time that Hill made it out of the first round of the playoffs. 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And playing on that stage in St. Louis, and [Chris] Webber and [Alan] Henderson and [Jamal] Mashburn were all there representing their teams, and even at that point, even though I was really young, I held my own. Defensively versatile and offensively adept, Molitor hit .306 over 12,167 plate appearances and logged 50 or more games at designated hitter, third base, second, first, shortstop and in the outfield. Grant Hill and Jason Kidd are two players that were included in the 2018 Hall of Fame class that can easily be compared to Love resume-wise. Even with the injured years, you lasted 19 years. Cal Ripken Jr.Class of 2007Ripken was revered as the bridge between the schools of old and new. He was an eight-time All-Star, a 1995 World Series champion, the 2008 NL batting champion and the '99 NL MVP Award winner. With high-90s velocity and a baffling changeup, Martinez won the Cy Young Award in both leagues -- one of just six pitchers to do so -- over a career headlined mostly by his time in Montreal and Boston. Ripken's streak of 2,632 consecutive games played is likely one that won't ever be matched. The two-time Cy Young Award winner and the '68 NL MVP Award winner quite literally changed the game. Follow along with Commander Country as we keep you up to date with all firings, hirings, and breaking news in the NFL
