About 24 hours after predicting that he would not be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, former Colorado Rockies outfielder Larry Walker was a part of the Hall of Fame’s press conference for him and Derek Jeter as they were the two inductees off of the BBWAA’s ballot for the class of 2020. Walker was elected by just six more votes than the minimum needed for election (76.6 percent).
After the press conference, he spoke to some of the media in more depth and he discussed the whirlwind of a 24 hours that he had.