The Hall had a special election in 2006, held by the Committee on African-American Baseball, of Negro League and pre Negro League players and executives. As a result, 18 people were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006, 17 of those from the Committee on African-American Baseball. In those 17 included the first woman to be elected to the Hall, Effa Manley, a Negro League executive. Negro League inductees - Ray Brown, Willard Brown, Andy Cooper, Frank Grant, Pete Hill, Biz Mackey, Effa Manley, Jose Mendez, Alex Pompez, Cumberland Posey, Louis Santop, Mule Suttles, Ben Taylor, Cristobal Torriente, Sol White, J.L. Wilkinson, and Jud Wilson
MLB inductee - Bruce Sutter
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