Baseball's newest Hall of Famers: Rice and Henderson

Rickey made it as expected with 511 votes for 94.8%. Jim Ed Rice made it in his 15th and last year of eligibility with 412 votes for 76.4%.

Just missing the cut were Andre Dawson (361 votes, 67.0%), Bert Blyleven (338 votes, 62.7%), Lee Smith (240 votes, 44.5%) and Jack Morris (237 votes, 44.0%).

Mark McGwire only received 118 votes (21.9 percent) in his third year of eligibility. He had gotten 128 his previous 2 attempts. He was a border line hall of famer before steroids and even less now apparently. He was a one dimensional player and even though that one skill (power) is on that writers usually love, it was not enough.

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- posted by Doug @ 2:30:00 PM