COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) -- Staring out at their families and tens of thousands of fans who hung on every word, Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza were inducted Sunday into the Baseball Hall of Fame in a ceremony tinged with tears all around.
''I stand up here humbled and overwhelmed,'' Griffey said. ''I can't describe how it feels.''
The two became a piece of history on their special day. Griffey, the first pick of the 1987 amateur draft, became the highest pick ever inducted. Piazza, a 62nd-round pick the next year -No. 1,390 - is the lowest pick to enter the Hall of Fame.