Just before pitchers and catchers were due to report, the National Baseball Hall of Fame hosted Virtual Voices of the Game: Bob Costas and Peter Gammons on Jim Kaat, who will be inducted on July 24th. In this episode, we’ll focus on Gammons and Costas themselves and their experience as winners of the 2004 Baseball Writers Association of America Career Excellence Award and the 2018 Ford C. Frick Award respectively. Costas described the setting four years ago and how one of the greatest catchers of all time welcomed him, as he welcomes all new inductees, into the community. Like Costas, Gammons realized it was about the players, but it’s also about the fans, one of whom let him break news at the trade deadline after he received a text from a future hall of fame executive.