Alongside the stage here at the Clark Sports Center, a giant video board began to show a highlight montage to preface Dick Allen’s formal induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. A chyron promised that the attendees would hear Mike Schmidt on Dick Allen,

If you want someone for your next celebrity roast, Ichiro Suzuki could be your guy. Mixing sneaky humor with heartfelt messages, the first Japanese-born player to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame stole the show Sunday in Cooperstown.

Mixing sneaky humor with heartfelt messages, Ichiro Suzuki, the first Japanese-born player to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, puts on a show in Cooperstown.

Ryne Sandberg was a beloved Hall of Fame infielder, a 10-time All-Star who won nine Gold Gloves and an MVP for the Chicago Cubs (and one season for the Philadelphia Phillies) in a 16-year career.

Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts said Ryne Sandberg “will be remembered as one of the all-time greats in nearly 150 years of this historic franchise.”

Iowa Cubs manager Ryne Sandberg during a game against the Oklahoma City RedHawks at the AT&T Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City, Thursday, July 15, 2010. Photo by Bryan Terry, The Oklahoman Future Baseball Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg,