Miller School baseball coach Billy Wagner, known to the outside world as the best lefthanded closer in MLB history, is a Baseball Hall of Famer.

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CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner exceeded tbe necessary 75% threshold for induction. Suzuki appeared on all but one of the 394 ballots submitted, failing to join Mariano Rivera as the only player ...

In his 10th and final year on the ballot, former Astros closer Billy Wagner earned is place in Cooperstown, N.Y. in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

In Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner, the Baseball Writers Association delivered quite an eclectic trifecta to Cooperstown on Tuesday. The first Japanese player ever elected to the Hall of Fame,

The BBWAA recognized CC Sabathia’s prolonged excellence by voting the former Yankees left-hander into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

The identity of the writer has not been revealed and may never be. BBWAA members who vote for the Hall of Fame have to be in the association for 10 years. They have the option of making their ballots public. The public ballots for this election will be released by the Hall of Fame on Feb. 4.

Wagner had a 1.98 earned run average and struck out 22 of the 56 batters he faced in his 15 games for the Red sox in 2009.

Emptying out my reporter’s notebook while hoping the CBS cameras keep showing Taylor Swift’s entourage during the Chiefs-Bills game on Sunday.

Former Houston Astros closer Billy Wagner reveals his thoughts after being chosen into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Countless people have called out the voter, including NJ Advance Media’s Bob Klapisch, who called the voter the “Clown of the Year.” Former Yankees closer Mariano Rivera remains the only unanimous player inducted into the Hall of Fame. Does that seem right?