Courtesy MLB.com

(January 4, 2010) The New Year means it is time to welcome a very familiar face to the MLB.com and MLB Network family, and it all starts for Peter Gammons on Wednesday when he debuts on MLB Network during the 2010 Hall of Fame election announcement show.

The show, beginning at 1 p.m. ET with the results simulcast live on MLB.com, will not only mark the first time Gammons appears on MLB Network, but it will also be the first time the two titans of their own industries team up. Gammons -- a Hall of Famer and baseball journalist for 40 years -- will share the stage with Bob Costas, a highly acclaimed sports broadcaster and 30-year veteran.

During the 90-minute show, Gammons and Costas will be joined by MLB Network colleagues Harold Reynolds, Matt Vasgersian, Tom Verducci, Jon Heyman and Ken Rosenthal, as well as National Baseball Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson.

Gammons, Costas, Reynolds, Vasgersian, Verducci, Heyman and Rosenthal will then recap the 2010 Hall of Fame ballot results with the hour-long Class of 2010 show at 9 p.m.

Gammons, a three-time National Sportswriter of the Year, most recently served as a baseball analyst for ESPN from 1988-2009. He began his career as a reporter for The Boston Globe in 1969, and in 2005, he was given the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for outstanding baseball writing during the Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cooperstown, N.Y.

Gammons joined MLB Network in early December as part of a multiyear deal that will also have him serve as a featured writer for MLB.com's new columnist initiative. He will be part of a stable of some of the most-connected and experienced journalists in the industry.

"After 40 years covering baseball, the opportunity to move on to MLB Network is a great and daunting opportunity," Gammons said in a statement upon the announcement of his move to MLB Network. "My journalistic life has revolved around baseball, and to be involved with people whose network is devoted to baseball, and baseball only, is something I look forward to with excitement. We all wish pitchers and catchers reported tomorrow. One of the greatest things about baseball is that it is held to a higher standard than any other sport, which holds those of us who care about it to a higher standard. I hope I can contribute to that standard."

Also on Wednesday, Heyman, Victor Rojas, Dan Plesac and Sean Casey will cover the latest updates and moves by all 30 clubs in preparation for the upcoming season in "Hot Stove," MLB Network's nightly offseason studio show, at 6 p.m.

Following "Hot Stove," MLB Network will air the premier of "Baseball's Seasons: 1959" at 8 p.m. The documentary-style series, created by Major League Baseball Productions, will feature the most memorable moments of that campaign, including the Go-Go Chicago White Sox and their quest to top the mighty Yankees in the American League, the Dodgers' transition to their new home in Los Angeles, the emergence of Hall of Famers Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale, and the World Series pitting the Dodgers and White Sox. Also, the 1959 episode will highlight integration throughout the U.S. in comparison to the Major Leagues, which saw the debut of Jackie Robinson 12 years earlier.

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