(File Photo: Source for Photo: Baseball Hall of Fame inductees Billy Wagner, left, Ichiro Suzuki, second from left, and CC Sabathia, center, pose for a photo with Willa Allen, second from right, widow of Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Dick Allen, and Dave Parker II, right, son of the late Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Dave Parker, at the National Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cooperstown, N.Y., Sunday, July 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) 

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Cooperstown, NY) On Sunday, the late former Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Dave Parker was posthumously inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York as part of its 2025 class. Parker becomes the 45th former Pirates organization player to receive this honor following this induction ceremony on Sunday. The others to join Parker in the 2025 National Baseball Hall of Fame class are the late Dick Allen, who was also inducted posthumously and was born in Wampum, along with CC Sabathia, Ichiro Suzuki and Billy Wagner.