Monthly Archives for January 2015


January 29: First Players Elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

On 29 January 1936, in Cooperstown, New York, the first five players were to be elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame. These players include Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson. In the midst of the Depression, 1936 had many interesting events take place, besides the induction of the first […]