Dodgers great Gil Hodges is voted into Baseball Hall of Fame
Former Dodgers slugger Gil Hodges, who won championships as a player in Brooklyn and Los Angeles and managed the New York Mets to the 1969 World Series title, was one of four players elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame on the Golden Days Era ballot on Sunday.
Hodges, an eight-time All-Star and three-time Gold Glove Award winner known for his solid production at the plate and stellar defense at first base, received 12 of a possible 16 votes, achieving the 75% threshold required for induction.Who would you put in a Dodgers’ Hall of Fame? Now is your chance to vote
Hodges spent the first 11 years of a 17-year career with the Dodgers, playing in Brooklyn from 1947-57 and in Los Angeles from 1958-61 before ending his career with two seasonswith the expansion Mets. In addition to the 1955 World Series-winning club, Hodges played on National League pennant winners in 1947, 1949, 1952, 1953 and 1956. When the Dodgers beat the New York Yankees for their 1955 title, Hodges drove in the only two runs in the decisive Game 7.
“He certainly deserves to be in the Hall of Fame,” Duke Snider, a 1980 Hall of Fame inductee and 15-year teammate of Hodges, said prior to his death in 2011. “Although Gil’s numbers are certainly worthy, I don’t just go by numbers. I go by what a guy did to help his team be a better ballclub.
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