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  National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum: Hall of Fame News
His Hall of Fame plaque states he was the "greatest drawing card in (the) history of baseball." Until he came along, team's played for one run and long-ball hitters were considered anomalies.
Among the Ruth items included in the Hall of Fame collections are his locker from Yankee Stadium, the bat he used to hit his 60th home run in 1927, the baseball from his 500th home run, his bowling ball and bowling shoes.
Hall of Fame executive Branch Rickey, a renowned evaluator of talent, declared Wagner "the greatest player who ever lived." Wagner used his huge hands and long arms to patrol several defensive positions, most notably shortstop.
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  Baseball Hall of Fame   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Hall of Fame was dedicated on June 12, 1939 by Stephen Carlton Clark, grandson of Edward Clark, who was a founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company.
Among baseball fans, "Hall of Fame" means not only the museum and facility in Cooperstown, but more likely the pantheon of players, managers, umpires and builders who have been named to enshrinement there.
In 2005 the Hall completed a study on African American players between the late 19th century and the integration of the major leagues in 1947, and conducted a special election for such players in February 2006; seventeen figures from the Negro Leagues were chosen in that election, in addition to the eighteen previously selected.
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 National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum - BaseballWiki
The Hall of Fame is often thought of primarily in terms of the latter.
In 2005 the Hall completed a study on African American players between the late 19th century and the integration of the major leagues in 1947, and conducted a special election for such players in February 2006; seventeen figures from the Negro Leagues were chosen in that election, in addition to the eighteen previously selected.
An ongoing controversy facing the Hall of Fame is that of the status of Joe Jackson and Pete Rose.
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 Baseball Hall of Fame Inductees
Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 2006 - The 2006 elections to select inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame proceeded in keeping with rules enacted in 2001, augmented by a special election; the result was the largest class of inductees (18) in the Hall's history, including the first woman ever elected.
Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 1939 - The 1939 elections to select inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame were the last ones conducted prior to the Hall's opening that year.
Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 1937 - The 1937 process of selecting inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame was markedly different from the initial elections the previous year.
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 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 1937 - Definition, explanation
The 1937 process of selecting inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame was markedly different from the initial elections the previous year.
Any candidate receiving votes on at least 75% of the ballots would be honored with induction to the Hall upon its opening in the sport's supposed centennial year of 1939.
A total of 201 ballots were cast, with 1949 individual votes for 113 specific candidates; 151 votes were required for election.
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 Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Baseball has lost many important contributors over the past 12 months, including two Hall of Famers, two current-day Major League players, and several Hall of Fame caliber writers and broadcasters.
The Hall of Fame second baseman threw to Rogell, who was playing despite a fractured ankle, for the forceout at second.
Wilhelm was elected to the Hall in 1985.
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 Cy Young - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
His nickname "Cy" is either short for "Cyclone" (as he himself stated, since barns and fences supposedly showed tornadic damage after encountering one of his pitches) or for a generic term of the time for a farmboy, similar to "Rube".
Not only is he a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame (elected in 1937), but the Cy Young Award, the annual award given to the best major league pitcher in each league, is named in his honor.
It was part of an astonishing performance that resulted in a record for most consecutive scoreless innings and most consecutive no-hit innings, the latter a record that still stands.
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 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 1939 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1939 elections to select inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame were the last ones conducted prior to the Hall's opening that year.
In the BBWAA election, voters were instructed to cast votes for 10 candidates; any candidate receiving votes on at least 75% of the ballots would be honored with induction to the Hall upon its opening in Cooperstown, New York on June 12 of that year.
They chose six inductees, all of whom were deceased; of the 13 committee selections between 1937 and 1939, only Connie Mack was still living at the time of the Hall's opening (his Athletics played in the inaugural Hall of Fame game).
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 'Select Baseball'
Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 1936 - The first elections to select inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame were held in 1936.
Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 2005 - The 2005 elections to select inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame proceeded in keeping with rules enacted in 2001.
Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 1938 - The 1938 elections to select inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame were conducted along much the same lines as the 1937 vote.
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 Famous Arkansas
He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on the first ballot in 1985.
He was inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame in 1978 and the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1983.
He was inducted in to the Braves Hall of Fame on August 13, 2002 and the Brooklyn Dodgers Hall of Fame in 1993.
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 Baseball Almanac - Year In Review : 1999 American League
President Bill Clinton was acquitted of impeachment charges and remained in office despite originally denying that he had improper relations with a White House intern.
The New York Times later printed that the average salary for a New York Yankee was $3 million much to the dismay of the rest of the league.
Baseball announced its twenty-five man All-Century Team as selected by fan balloting.
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 BBF Hall of Fame: July Election - Page 3 - Baseball Fever
The purpose of the BBF Hall is not to pick who we think are the best players that aren't in; the purpose is to build a new Hall from scratch.
We would have had 32 ballots except that I regretfully discounted Pumpsie Green's due to the fact that PG was unable to cut his Players' Ballot down to 25 names before the deadline.
From the Non-Players Ballot, a near-unanimous 26 (of a record 27 possible) votes carried the day for Rube Foster, the "founding father" of the negro leagues and Al Spalding, an early manager, owner and league executive, followed suit with 22 votes (81%).
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 Comparisons to an Average SS
Combined with his somewhat poor range at shortstop, He became a rather marginal candidate for the hall of fame through his inability to continue at short.
He should be a first ballot Hall-of-Famer and has a chance to be a 20 year man with one team, allegedly an extinct entity.
Ballot: 64-RO 66 67-RO 68-69-70 '71-'72-'73 '74-'75-'76 Reese: 73-47 95 89-16 81-89-97 127-129-126 141-154-186 Rizzuto: 45-11 54 71-14 74-78-79 92-103-111 111-117-144
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San Francisco Giants 2B is a two-time All-Star and one of the premier offensive catalysts in all of baseball.
Whitey, elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974, hand-signed this official MLB baseball right on the sweet spot.
An All-America football flanker and baseball outfielder at Michigan State University, Gibson was Detroit's number-one pick in the June 1978 draft before moving to the Dodgers later in his career.
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 Traditions University of South Carolina :: The Official Athletic Site
The USC Athletic Hall of Fame was created in 1967, and the current membership of 90 was selected by the University of South Carolina Association of Lettermen.
runner-up in balloting for the Lefty Gomez Plate, symbolic of the top amateur baseball player in the United States, in 1975 when he pitched the Gamecocks to within one game of the NCAA championship at the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska...
the Carolina baseball team was 17-13 in his two seasons while the Gamecock basketball squad was 13-7, 8-4 in the Southern Conference in 1937.
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 Induct Buck O'Neil to the Hall of Fame: February 2006
On February 28, the Baseball Hall of Fame announced seventeen inductees from the Negro Leagues era.
His Hall of Fame ballot “candidates profile” states that his “life in baseball notes the quintessential experience of the Negro leagues.” [see the profile at http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_honorees/oneil_buck.htm.
While the Hall should be commended for the bold selection of Effa Manley, in contrast her tenure with the League lasted a mere fourteen years.
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 Baseball Hall of Fame Balloting, 1944 Encyclopedia Article @ Pitched.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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 Texas Rangers : Fan Forum : Hall Of Fame Ballot
The 2005 Texas Rangers Hall of Fame inductees will be announced once balloting concludes, and an induction ceremony will be held in a pre-game ceremony on Friday, August 5, 2005.
The Texas Rangers Baseball Hall of Fame will honor players, managers, coaches, executives and broadcasters for outstanding performance and service with the organization.
All players who have appeared in at least one game for the Texas Rangers are eligible for selection, provided they have been retired for at least two full seasons as an active player.
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 Frankie Frisch - BR Bullpen
Frankie Frisch was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1947.
After no players had been selected by the writers in the previous two years (the only elections since Hornsby's selection in 1942), the rules were revised to limit eligibility to those players who had retired after 1921; Frisch was among the first four players to benefit from the more reasonable field of candidates.
In 1999, he ranked number 88 on The Sporting News list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players, and was a nominee for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team.
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 Indiana Baseball Hall of Fame - Fred Fitzsimmons
Indiana Baseball Hall of Fame - Fred Fitzsimmons
From 1928 to 1937 he and Carl Hubbell gave New York a potent righty-lefty combination.
In Hall of Fame balloting between 1948 and 1962, however, Fitzsimmons received only 38 total votes.
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 Negro League Baseball Blog
The 39 candidates were nominated for induction as a result of an intensive study of Negro League baseball commissioned by the Hall of Fame and conducted by a research team of 50 historians and researchers headed by former baseball commissioner Fay Vincent.
Under the rules for the upcoming election a panel of 12 historians and baseball researchers will consider each of the candidates and cast a ballot, up or down, for the induction of each into the Hall of Fame.
The ballot will contain the names of 30 former players and Negro League executives who participated in the "organized" Negro Leagues after the establishment of the Negro National League in 1920.
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