Tweet - "Gil Hodges was a great Brooklyn Dodger, an original Met, a manager of the Mets. He was a Marine in WWII and fought in Tinian and Okinawa. He was awarded the Bronze Star with Combat V. I've been pushing for him to be inducted to @BaseballHall , and tonight he finally is."

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"Gil Hodges was a great Brooklyn Dodger, an original Met, a manager of the Mets.

He was a Marine in WWII and fought in Tinian and Okinawa. He was awarded the Bronze Star with Combat V.

I've been pushing for him to be inducted to @BaseballHall, and tonight he finally is."

@SenSchumer

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