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Snubbed by Cooperstown, embraced by St. Mary's: That's Roberto Alomar's story after the former Toronto Blue Jays second baseman was announced Thursday as one of this year's inductees for the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.

Alomar, who earlier this month fell a scant eight votes short of election to the Baseball Hall of Fame in upstate New York, will be enshrined this summer at Canada's answer to the museum, located in southwestern Ontario.

He'll be joined by Paul Quantrill, a longtime big-league reliever from Port Hope, Ont., who played six seasons for the Blue Jays, along with former Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins owner Calvin Griffith and statistician Allan Roth.