XM will have Cal’s big Hall of Fame Weekend Covered…

Cal Ripken and Tony Gwynn will be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame this Sunday, July 29.

XM Satellite Radio’s baseball talk radio channel MLB Home Plate (XM Channel 175) will be live from Cooperstown, N.Y., for three days of comprehensive coverage starting Friday, July 27.  Baseball fans nationwide can listen to the induction ceremony on Sunday from 1:30 pm until approximately 4:00 pm ET uninterrupted and commercial free on XM.

Ripken, who co-hosts the XM radio show “Ripken Baseball” with his brother and fellow major league veteran Billy Ripken, will interview current Hall of Famers Earl Weaver, Jim Palmer, Ryne Sandberg, and Fergie Jenkins, on a two-hour edition of the program this Saturday, July 28.  This special edition of “Ripken Baseball” premieres on the MLB Home Plate channel Saturday morning at 8 am ET, with an encore broadcast on Sunday at 8 am ET.  

XM will also premiere a special, one-hour interview with Tony Gwynn on the program “Baseball Confidential” this Saturday at 7 am ET with an encore on Sunday at 10 am ET.  The Gwynn interview was taped in front of an audience at the MLB All-Star Week FanFest in San Francisco on July 10.

The MLB Home Plate call-in show “Baseball This Morning” will be live from Doubleday Field in Cooperstown on Friday, and it will broadcast from Cooper Park next to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum on Saturday and Sunday.   The afternoon call-in program “The Show” will air from Cooper Park on Friday and Saturday.  The channel’s broadcast team will be live from the local festivities throughout the weekend, culminating with a post-induction show on Sunday evening.