Soon after his death, Roberto Clemente became the first Latino player to be included in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

The next year he was one of the first five players to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

VOA: special.2011.03.27

The Queen of Soul was the first woman to be honored in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

W.A.A. considers it a tremendous honor to be elected to the Hall of Fame on the first ballot.

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Mr Ammiano, whose first fame had been as a performer at a homosexual comedy club he helped to found, is a rallying figure for many of the more radical elements in San Francisco.

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Since the inaugural class of Ruth (95.1%), Cobb (98.2%), Mathewson (90.7%), Johnson (83.6%) and Wagner (95.1%) of 1936, only 39 men have been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on the first ballot.

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