The next five National Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Weekends are set in stone.

The Hall’s biggest weekend of the summer will revolve around Induction Ceremonies scheduled for the last Sunday of July for the next five years.

The schedule, released Tuesday, marks the first time in the 66-year history of the Cooperstown-based Hall that dates for Induction Weekend have been set years in advance.

Induction Weekend will run July 28-31 in 2006; July 27-30 in 2007; July 25-28 in 2008; July 24-27 in 2009; and July 23-26 in 2010.

[an error occurred while processing this directive]The 2005 Induction Weekend runs Friday through Monday. Wade Boggs and Ryne Sandberg will be honored at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Clark Sports Center in the annual Induction Ceremony. They’re expected to be joined on stage by a record 53 returning Hall of Famers, Ford C. Frick Award-winner Jerry Coleman and J.G. Taylor Spink Award-winner Peter Gammons.

Inductee classes are set each spring, following the Baseball Writers’ Association of America voting for former players; Veterans Committee player voting in odd-numbered years; and VC voting on managers, executives and umpires every four years.

The Hall also announced Tuesday plans for a special Negro leagues election for 2006. The Hall’s Board of Directors appointed screening and voting committees earlier this month for this election, which follows the completion of a landmark study on the history of African Americans in baseball, from 1860-1960.

A five-member screening committee — Adrian Burgos, Dick Clark, Larry Hogan, Larry Lester and Jim Overmyer — will meet in November to develop one ballot for Negro leagues players, managers, umpires and executives and another for candidates who preceded the creation of the Negro leagues.

The five screening members will join seven others — Todd Bolton, Greg Bond, Neil Lanctot, Sammy Miller, Ray Doswell, Leslie Heaphy and Robert Peterson — to form the voting committee, which will cast paper ballots for each candidate in February.

Former Major League Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent will serve as the non-voting chairman of both committees.

Candidates who receive a "yes" on 75 percent of the ballots will earn election into the Hall of Fame next July.

Written recommendations from fans and historians who are not part of the committees will be accepted through the month of October via e-mail at info@baseballhalloffame.org or regular mail sent to the Committee on African-American Baseball, 25 Main Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

With roughly 20,000 visitors expected for Hall of Fame Weekend, visitors are advised to use village and Museum-provided transportation in an effort to alleviate potential long delays and traffic problems.

The Cooperstown Trolley will provide transit to the Hall and Doubleday Field from three locations: the Blue Lot on Route 28, south of Cooperstown; the Red Lot on Route 28 (Glen Avenue) at Maple Street; and the Yellow Lot on Route 80 at the upper parking lot of the Fenimore Art Museum. All-day passes are available for $2 for all riders. Free shuttles will be available as well.