Sports Collectors Digest

ROYAL ROUNDTABLE

They didn’t have to dodge questions but did need to dodge raindrops.

For the third straight time, weather interfered with the annual Baseball Hall of Fame Roundtable, the final event of a frantic but fun-filled weekend for fans, media and the newest inductees to the Cooperstown gallery.

Jim Kaat, Tony Oliva and David “Big Papi” Ortiz sat on the same stage where they had stood before to give their acceptance speeches — backed by Sandy Koufax and 47 other incumbent Hall of Famers who made the long, arduous trek to Central New York for the annual event.

Pedro Martinez, there to support Ortiz, his former teammate and countryman, plus Oliva, a long-time friend, actually arrived

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