From the All-Star Game to Cooperstown? Hall of Fame tiers for every 2022 MLB All-Star

A few days after the MLB All-Star Game next week, David Ortiz will be one of seven former players to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. He's also the answer to a trivia question related to the upcoming Midsummer Classic: Who was the last Hall of Famer to appear in an All-Star Game?

Ortiz made the last of his 10 All-Star Game appearances in 2016 at Petco Park in San Diego, going 0-for-1 with a walk before giving way to a pinch runner. He's the only player from that game so far who has been elected to the Hall of Fame.

Of course, there will be others in time, as anyone who appeared during the 2017 season has not yet been eligible to appear on an HOF ballot. But time is what it will take. Going back over the past full decade of All-Star Games, the total number of Hall of Famers who have appeared in the game is just four, with Chipper Jones, Mariano Rivera and Derek Jeter joining Big Papi. The 2013 game, in which Ortiz and Rivera appeared, is the most recent one to feature multiple Hall of Famers.

That brings us to another trivia question, one that we won't be able to answer for many years to come: How many Hall of Famers will appear in Tuesday's game?

The answer to our question is probably somewhere between three and 27. It's a big range. Three represents the fewest Hall of Famers selected for any All-Star Game played between 1933 and 2012. That was the total in 2005 and 2012, though both of those games were recent enough that the list could and probably will still grow.

The most Hall of Famers to appear in an All-Star Game was 27, the number who appeared in the second-ever contest in 1934 at the Polo Grounds in New York. Between 1947 — when the Midsummer Classic ramped back up to full