SF Giants Star Named To 2026 Bay Area Sports Hall Of Fame Class

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Two-time World Series champion and San Francisco Giants star Brandon Crawford has been inducted into the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame.

Crawford joins four others in the 2026 class:

• Jack Clark — Head coach of the men's rugby team at UC Berkeley. He's led the team to 30 National Championships in his 43 years as head coach.
• Missy Franklin — A five-time Olympic gold medalist and International Swimming Hall of Famer. Franklin in 2015 won the 2015 NCAA Women’s Division I Swimming and Diving Team
  Championship.
• Eddie Hart — A Bay Area native, Olympic gold medalist track and field sprinter and two-time world record holder.
• Jesse Sapolu — A four-time Super Bowl Champion with the San Francisco 49ers from 1984 through 1994.

“The 2026 class of the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame features five extremely worthy individuals who have made a tremendous impact in their sport and in our region,” Board Chair of BASHOF Mario Alioto said in a statement Thursday. “It’s a distinguished group that features Super Bowl and World Series Champions, Olympic Gold medalists, and NCAA National Champions and we are thrilled for them to take their rightful place among the other legends enshrined in the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame.”

Crawford, a Bay Area native, first debuted for the San Francisco Giants in 2011. By the time he retired in 2024, he had played the most games ever at shortstop for the Giants, the seventh most games overall in franchise history, had won four gold gloves, a silver slugger and a gold medal in the 2017 World Baseball Classic.

Crawford was inducted into the UCLA Hall of Fame — his alma mater — in 2025.

The five people, who have all made an impact on Bay Area sports, will be honored at the 2026 BASHOF dinner and induction ceremony on Thursday, May 14.