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David Ortiz reflects on his career after being announced as an inductee into the Baseball Hall of Fame's class of 2022. (1:36)With the process still tainted by the steroid era, David Ortiz was the lone player elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame this year, while others like Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens were shut out."Big Papi" was the only player to clear the required 75% threshold, according to results of this year's voting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. It's something that is very special to me."Bonds, baseball's all-time home run leader; 354-game winner Clemens; 600-homer-club member Sammy Sosa; and longtime ace pitcher Curt Schilling were in their 10th and final year of eligibility in the annual BBWAA balloting.Bonds, Sosa and Clemens posted numbers that marked them as surefire, first-ballot Hall of Famers, but they became avatars for the era of performance-enhancing drugs. I gave it all I had, the right way, for my family and for the fans who supported me."If it was up to Ortiz, Bonds and Clemens would be joining him on the stage in Cooperstown, New York, this summer.As David Ortiz enters the Hall of Fame, we celebrate the best of his one-of-a-kind career. Ortiz is the fourth Dominican-born player to be elected to the Hall, joining Martinez, Juan Marichal and Vladimir Guerrero."I can imagine how New England feels about one of its babies getting into the Hall of Fame today," Ortiz said. Frick award winner for excellence in broadcasting, while ESPN's Tim Kurkjian will be recognized as this year's winner of the BBWAA Career Excellence Award for meritorious contributions to baseball writing.With Ortiz standing as the lone winner from this year's BBWAA balloting, the writers have now elected just one player total over the past two cycles.
As said here by Bradford DoolittleESPN Staff Writer