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Ripken, Gwynn elected to Hall of Fame as McGwire falls far short

By RONALD BLUM, AP Baseball Writer
January 9, 2007

NEW YORK (AP) -- Mark McGwire fell far short in his first try for the Hall of Fame, picked by 23.5 percent of voters while Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken Jr. easily gained baseball's highest honor.

Tarnished by accusations of steroid use, McGwire appeared on 128 of a record 545 ballots in voting released Tuesday by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.

Ripken was picked by 537 voters and appeared on 98.53 percent of ballots to finish with the third-highest percentage behind Tom Seaver (98.84) and Nolan Ryan (98.79). Gwynn received 532 votes for 97.6 percent, the seventh-highest ever.


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I'd like to know which eight voters didn't vote for Ripken. And which two voters DID vote for Ken Caminiti.
 
Bucky Katt;712297; said:
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I'd like to know which eight voters didn't vote for Ripken. And which two voters DID vote for Ken Caminiti.
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the one guy making the most noise about not voting for Ripken is some loser from Chicago who turned in a blank ballot.

That kinda kills the purpose of the entire process IMO. If you don't want to vote for Cal, that's fine, but a protest ballot because of the steroids era?

WTF?

It isn't as if there WEREN'T pre-steroids era guys he could've voted for (Goose Gossage, Andre Dawson, etc)....

And I'd like to know why people didn't vote for Gwynn too....
 
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BuckeyeMike80;712416; said:
the one guy making the most noise about not voting for Ripken is some loser from Chicago who turned in a blank ballot.
That kinda kills the purpose of the entire process IMO. If you don't want to vote for Cal, that's fine, but a protest ballot because of the steroids era?
WTF?
It isn't as if there WEREN'T pre-steroids era guys he could've voted for (Goose Gossage, Andre Dawson, etc)....
And I'd like to know why people didn't vote for Gwynn too....
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Hey i'm just happy Cal and Tony got in. and Glad Mac didn't. I could care less about some schmuck from Chicago. He probably was that jerry guy who broke up Da Bulls.
Good job to both the inductees, both were bangin ball players.
I think Mac fell way short because he has stopped taking roids haha
 
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Best Buckeye;712438; said:
Hey i'm just happy Cal and Tony got in. and Glad Mac didn't. I could care less about some schmuck from Chicago. He probably was that jerry guy who broke up Da Bulls.
Good job to both the inductees, both were bangin ball players.
I think Mac fell way short because he has stopped taking roids haha
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Well the thing is that I don't care really that he didn't vote for Ripken or Gwynn. I think it was fairly obvious to anyone that both were going to get in with a substantial margin of the vote.

But fringe guys who deserve better (specifically Gossage and Dawson IMO), are more or less being screwed by some idiot's "moral" stand.

This isn't politics, it's not exactly a "right" to have this type of vote. If it were, I'd have one :biggrin:. They were given the ability to vote for a reason, use it or lose it.
 
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BuckeyeMike80;712416; said:
It isn't as if there WEREN'T pre-steroids era guys he could've voted for (Goose Gossage, Andre Dawson, etc)....
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...or Jim Rice. Whoever it was that voted for Caminiti should have their voting priveliges revoked. They'd have more justification voting for Tommy Hinzo...anybody remember him?:biggrin:
 
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NFBuck;713044; said:
...or Jim Rice. Whoever it was that voted for Caminiti should have their voting priveliges revoked. They'd have more justification voting for Tommy Hinzo...anybody remember him?:biggrin:
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Vaguely :biggrin:

Jim Rice is borderline anyway.

Gossage was the first true closer and generally had to pitch multiple innings to get his saves and The Hawk was a multiple MVP.....
 
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PrincetonBuckeye;713331; said:
he had what 15 or so the next year..:slappy:
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I think it was 18....

And he played with a short porch in Camden Yards (I followed the Orioles then).....

Even that year with 50 he barely hit about half of them out of the yard. More than 10 just BARELY cleared the wall in Right Field....
 
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PrincetonBuckeye;713336; said:
It was nice to see that Pete Rose got 4 write-in votes though....

He was one of my heroes growing up.:biggrin:
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Unfortunately for Rose and his fans, it took him 14 years to admit he gambled on the game his teams were in....

Pete brought all that on himself.
 
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