XM Satellite Radio's baseball talk radio channel MLB Home Plate (ch 175) will be live from Cooperstown, NY, for three days of coverage starting this Friday, July 27th. Tune in for the induction ceremonies on Sunday from 1:30pm to 4pm ET - uninterrupted and totally commercial-free.

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

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.  This special edition of "Ripken Baseball" premieres on MLB Home Plate on Saturday morning at 8am ET - and if you miss it, an encore broadcast will air on Sunday at 8am ET.

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

The MLB Home Plate call-in show "Baseball This Morning" will be live from Doubleday Field in Cooperstown on Friday, and 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. Their broadcast team will be live from the local festivities in Cooperstown throughout the weekend, culminating with a post-induction show on Sunday afternoon.

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