List of members of the Baseball Hall of Fame

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, honors individuals who have excelled in playing, managing, and serving the sport, and is the central point for the study of the history of baseball in the United States and beyond, displaying baseball-related artifacts and exhibits.

Players meeting these qualifications must pass through a screening committee, and are then voted on by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA).

[1] The rules, as revised in July 2016, allow that all individuals eligible for induction but not for the BBWAA ballot—players who have not been approved by the BBWAA election process within 15 years of their retirement, umpires, managers, pioneers, and executives—may be considered by one of four voting bodies that have taken over the role of the former Veterans Committee, based on the era in which each individual candidate made his greatest contribution to the sport.

[6] In 2005, the Hall announced the formation of a Committee on African-American Baseball, which held a 2006 election for eligible figures from the Negro leagues and earlier 19th-century teams;[7] 17 additional Negro leagues figures were chosen in that election, including executive Effa Manley, the first woman inducted.

[8] In the table below, "primary team" is based on the inductees' biographies at the Hall of Fame website.

A large hall flanked by black marble columns on the left and right. There is a wooden tower in the middle on which are mounted several plaques. Two people are standing at the tower; one, obscured behind the other, points at a plaque while other people mill about on the sides of the room. The far end opens into a lighted rotunda.
The plaque gallery at the Baseball Hall of Fame
Ty Cobb 's plaque at the Baseball Hall of Fame
A man in a white baseball uniform and cap throws a baseball with his right hand. The shirt of his uniform has a sock-shaped icon, which reads "Boston". He is looking, and throwing, to the right of the picture.
Cy Young , elected 1937
A portrait of a man who looks to the right of the image. He is shown from the mid-chest up to the top of his head. He has a large mustache and parted hair, and he is wearing a Victorian-era suit.
Albert Spalding , elected 1939
A photograph of a man who looks to the right of the image. He is shown from the upper chest to the top of his head. His hair is parted on the right side of his head, and he is wearing a suit and a tie with a large knot.
Ed Delahanty , elected 1945
A man in a white baseball uniform smiles at the camera. He is shown from the knees up. His uniform shows the word "Sox", with a small "O" and a small "X" inside the vertical large letter "S". His hands are folded behind his back.
Ed Walsh , elected 1946
A full-length photograph of a man who looks toward the left side of the picture. His facial expression appears though he may laugh. He is wearing a suit underneath a dark peacoat, as well as a Gatsby-style cap. He holds a protective metal and leather mask in his right hand.
Bill Klem , elected 1953
Hank Greenberg , elected 1956
Sandy Koufax , elected 1972
David Ortiz , elected 2022