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AP photo / Tim Roske
Jim Rice views a display of Red Sox memorabilia from the 1970s during a visit to Cooperstown on Friday.

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) - Jim Rice said it was nice to feel like a rookie again.
The former Boston Red Sox slugger made his first visit to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum on Friday and took a tour ahead of his induction this summer.

He posed for photos with an elementary school group and handled bats once used by Babe Ruth and Rabbit Maranville.

Rice was elected to the hall in January in his 15th and final year of eligibility on the Baseball Writers' Association of America ballot. He'll be inducted in July along with Rickey Henderson, who toured the hall a week ago, and former New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians second baseman Joe Gordon, who was elected posthumously by the Veterans Committee.

Rice played his entire career with the Red Sox.

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