Former Braves pinch-hitter Ted Simmons got the call Sunday night to join Baseball's elite in Cooperstown, while another former Brave Dale Murphy will have to wait for another vote.

Funding for a $15 million stadium was approved the next day. 1986 - The Braves acquire catcher Ted Simmons from the Milwaukee Brewers in exchange for catcher Rick Cerone and a pa ...

Ted Simmons just had to stop and soak it all in. “It’s totally overwhelming and humbling, to say the very least," Simmons said Thursday as he gazed at the Baseball Hall of Fame's plaque ...

Ted Simmons will go into the Hall of Fame as a member ... He’d spend two more seasons in Milwaukee before he was traded to the Braves during Spring Training in 1985 but returned to the ...

SAN DIEGO — Ted Simmons is now a Hall of Famer, being elected by the Hall’s Modern-Day Era Committee on Sunday night for his stellar career as a switch-hitting catcher. In the years after ...

PEORIA, Ariz. — On June 8, 1993, while working in his office at Three Rivers Stadium, Ted Simmons suffered a heart attack. He would tell reporters he thought he was going to die. Less than three ...

Former standout catcher Ted Simmons has joined the Braves as a major league scout, one of four hires announced Monday by general manager John Coppolella. Matt Kinzer and Leon Wurth were also hired ...

Simmons hit for higher averages — .301 during the 1970s, compared to Bench's .269 — but Bench was a better power hitter, having hit exactly 100 more home runs during the decade than Simmons' 169.

It is Ted Simmons, who will be honored Jan. 19 by the St. Louis Baseball Writers in the midst of a big baseball week locally, with the Cardinals’ Winter Warm-Up to take place from Jan. 18-20.

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Ted Simmons just had to stop and soak it all in. “It’s totally overwhelming and humbling, to say the very least," Simmons said Thursday as he gazed at the Baseball ...

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Ted Simmons just had to stop and soak it all in. “It’s totally overwhelming and humbling, to say the very least," Simmons said Thursday as he gazed at the Baseball ...