The Hall Of Fame announced ten players who are on the ballot for enshrinement in the National Baseball Hall Of Fame by the Veterans Committee.
The ten players on the ballot are: Joe Torre, Ron Santo, Gil Hodges, Dick Allen, Jim Kaat, Tony Oliva, Al Oliver, Vada Pinson, Maury Wills and Luis Tiant.
Gil Hodges should have been elected to the Hall Of Fame as a player decades ago. Now it is time for the Hall to make good on a gross injustice.
Hodges hit 310 HR's and 1001 RBI's for the 1950's, as well as redefining 1B as a defensive position. He accumulated a .273 lifetime average.
It would be so apropos for Hodges to finally earn enshrinement the year his son and widow revealed #14 on the OF wall at Shea, and the final year of Shea Stadium.
The panel that will decide the fate of Hodges and the others is a 12 person panel which will include Hall Of Famers Bobby Doerr, Ralph Kiner, and newly elected Dick Williams.
The results of the voting will be announced on December 8, 2008. A candidate must receive 75% of the vote to be elected. The 64 living Hall Of Fame members will vote.
For more, read The Canadian Press
1 comment:
so do all vote or just 12? if 12 vote then having dick williams vote might be the x factopr that gets him in this time.
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