Half a dozen sluggers are selected for the HOF

Six legendary names have been included in el National Baseball Hall of Fame, according to the results of the special meetings of the selection committee today Sunday. Bud Fowler, Gil Hodges, Jim Kaat, Minnie Miñoso, Tony Oliva y Buck O’Neil They have been elected to Cooperstown and will be officially admitted on July 24, 2022 along with the players who have voted on the regular writers ballot.

Often referred to as “veterans committee” picks, the Baseball Hall of Fame now hosts an annual committee with a different membership that focuses on a rotation from different eras in the history of the sport:

The Early Baseball committee (covering candidates from 1871-1949) meets once a decade, the Golden Days committee (1950-1969) once every five years, and the Modern Baseball (1970-1987) and Today’s committees. Game (1988-present) meet twice each during each five-year period.

Last year’s vote was postponed due to the pandemic, so this winter the committees of Early Baseball y Golden Days, which resulted in 20 possible candidates for Cooperstown. Each committee consisted of 16 members, and each member can include up to four names on their ballot. Candidates must receive at least 12 votes to receive induction into the Hall of Fame.

Minoso, Hodges, Kaat and Oliva were included on the Golden Days ballot. Minoso received 14 votes, while Hodges, Kaat and Oliva received 12 votes each. Dick Allen fell short with 11 votes, another unfortunate close call after Allen also missed out on the 2015 ballot by just one vote. Other candidates on the ballot included Ken Boyer, Roger Maris, Danny Murtaugh, Billy Pierce and Maury Wills, who received three or fewer votes.

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O’Neil and Fowler were included on the Early Baseball ballot, with O’Neil receiving 13 of 16 votes and Fowler receiving 12 votes. Other candidates on the ballot who received votes were Vic Harris (10 votes), John Donaldson (eight), Allie Reynolds (six), Lefty O’Doul (five) and George Scales (four), while Bill Dahlen, Grant “Home Run Johnson and Dick Redding received three votes or less.

Rafael Martinez

I am a fan of the King of Sports, especially the Boston Red Sox in MLB and in general all of Mexican baseball. This profession has given me the opportunity to cover major events such as the Caribbean Series, the LMB All Star, LMP (uninterrupted since 2009), signings of important players. I had the chance to attend the 2013 World Classic in Arizona, USA, albeit as a fan. Apart from this beautiful sport, I love basketball, where I have also narrated games and even a friendly NBA 10 years ago, but I carry baseball in my veins. Graduated in Communication Sciences from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS) , from which I graduated in 2011. I was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa and started in the world of sports journalism in 2004 in the newspaper El Sol de Mazatlán, where I was a baseball columnist and reporter at the same time. In January 2009 I came to El Debate as a journalist reporter and it was almost six years (in the first stage), until in November 2014 I emigrated to the radio providing my services in Línea Directa-Grupo RSN. My cycle there ended in July 2019 and within days, El Debate gave me another opportunity to work and opened the doors for me again. That is how I came to Al Bat, where I have been since 2019 as a web journalist.

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