Dave Parker, who died a month before he was to be inducted, and Dick Allen got into the Hall posthumously after being voted in by the classics committee.

Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners made history once again, this time with a speech that had the crowd laughing and chanting his name. On Sunday, he became the first player born in Japan to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

"I wouldn't have made it all this way without the women redirecting me when I got lost," Sabathia said of his wife, Amber, and mom, Margie.