The road to Cooperstown was very different for the three newest inductees into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s kind of overwhelming, and at the same time, it makes me feel proud about my journey as a baseball player to be able to end up in this position,\u201d said Carlos Beltr\u00e1n.<\/p>\n
For Beltr\u00e1n, it started in Puerto Rico, while Andruw Jones arrived at the Hall of Fame via Curacao.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m very proud of everyone that made it,\u201d Jones said. \u201cAnd we have a lot of kids that is on the way that is close to make it. So, I’m very proud of every single one that believe what I did that they can do it too.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Jeff Kent, it all began in Southern California, before spending time with six different MLB teams \u2014 most notably with the San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was a sponge of learning things all the time,” Kent said. “And I understood failure better. I dealt with it better.”<\/p>\n
Through all the ups and downs of this voyage, three have reached the same destination- the Hall of Fame. They had a chance to reflect on their careers and the journey to Cooperstown on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust getting that call to make it to the major league in 1996, get on that plane flying into Philadelphia, and walk into the clubhouse and see all these guys that you watch on TV, who won the World Series in 1995,\u201d said Jones, sharing one of his favorite memories.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, the trio will share more memories and stories as they reflect back on this long road to the Hall of Fame. Kent is going in as a Giant, while Jones as an Atlanta Brave, and Beltr\u00e1n as a New York Met.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of my biggest moments in New York, but also my biggest challenges also,” Beltr\u00e1n said. “So I feel like as a person, like where the place I grew the most I felt was in New York.”<\/p>\n
The ceremony will take place Sunday at the Clark Sports Center, and will get underway at 1:30 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The road to Cooperstown was very different for the three newest inductees into the National Baseball Hall of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27962,14932,556,53777,5,93129,56383,4,36353,185,1542],"class_list":["post-761920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-all-markets-rank-everywhere","tag-app-for-your-consideration","tag-app-sports","tag-around-the-us","tag-baseball","tag-central-ny","tag-jackson-wang","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-state","tag-sports","tag-vod"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116986254677482429","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}