David Wright’s No. 5 will be retired by the New York Mets before a July 19 game against Cincinnati.

David Ortiz will certainly hear loud chants of “Big Papi!”.

Buck O’Neil, a champion of Black ballplayers during a monumental, eight-decade career on and off the field, has joined Minnie Miñoso, Gil Hodges and three others in being elected to the baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday.