The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum officially welcomed five new members Sunday. This year's induction ceremony in Cooperstown, New York, honored the 2025 Hall of Fame class, led by the peerless Ichiro Suzuki.

The 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony will gather some of the game's most esteemed figures at the Clark Sports Center in Cooperstown, New York, on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. ET. America's pastime will honor another class of its greats in the 53rd Baseball Hall of Fame induction.

Masataka Yoshida was excited to see Suzuki become the first Japanese player inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Allen refused to campaign for Cooperstown before he died in December of 2020. So others did. And it paid off on Sunday when the Phillies legend finally received baseball's ultimate honor.

Speaking to the crowd, Ichiro listed a few of historic achievements to set up the joke about the lone writer's snub. After the vote, Ichiro had offered to host the writer at his home for dinner, but on Sunday, he jokingly made a point to rescind that offer.

Hall of Fame weekend is underway in Cooperstown and the big event will be the official induction of Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia, Billy Wagner, Dave Parker and Dick Allen in a ceremony on Sunday.  A funny thing in reflecting on this class is there's excellent diversity.

Antonio Gates thought his path to a Hall of Fame career would have been in basketball. Instead, he became one of the best tight ends in NFL history. Gates will be enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday, getting elected to Canton without playing college football.

The class will join the likes of Selena Quintanilla, Sandra Day O'Connor, Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson, Ann Richards and Opal Lee.