A baseball player from Princeton was one of the six candidates elected to the Pro Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday.
The Eras Committee elected Gil Hodges to this year’s class of inductees.
Hodges was originally from Princeton but moved to Petersburg at the age of seven. He was a four-sport athlete at Petersburg High School and later played in college.
He was a first baseman and a manager in Major League Baseball from his rookie year as a player in 1943 until he retired from baseball altogether as a manager in 1971.
Hodges played for the Dodgers in both Brooklyn and Los Angeles as well as the New York Mets.
Hodges batted .271 for his career which amassed over 19-hundred hits and 370 home runs.
The baseball legend died in 1972.
