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Ripken, Gwynn elected to Hall of Fame

Posted by Vince

Jan. 9, 2007 11:11 a.m. • 0 comments

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

The Hall of Fame voting was just announced and, though neither was a unanimous choice, Cal Ripken and Tony Gwynn were elected on the first ballot. You can see the AP story here.

Ripken was named on 98.53 of the ballots, third best percentage of all-time, trailing only Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan.

Mark McGwire, who has become the poster boy for steroid abuse, received 23.8 percent of the vote, not close to the three-quarters a candidate needs to be elected

By the way, Jay Buhner was on the ballot, and he didn’t expect to get a vote, let alonw get in. He was wrong. He received one vote.