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Algernon Moncrieff

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Wed Jan 27, 2021, 01:39 PM Jan 2021

Nobody made the HOF this year!

ESPN

For the first time since 1960, the membership of the National Baseball Hall of Fame will remain frozen.

No player on the Hall's 2021 Baseball Writers' Association of America ballot reached the 75% threshold needed for enshrinement in Cooperstown. The results of the voting were announced by Hall of Fame president Tim Mead on MLB Network on Tuesday night.

The leading vote-getter was controversial pitcher Curt Schilling, who was named on 71.1% of the ballots, 16 votes shy of the minimum needed for selection. Schilling was followed by all-time home run leader Barry Bonds (61.8%) and 354-game winner Roger Clemens (61.6) in the voting.

All three former All-Stars were in their ninth year of eligibility on the ballot, leaving them one more chance next winter. Players get 10 shots at enshrinement via the writers' voting before moving on to consideration by one of the Hall's various era-based veterans committees.


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Nobody made the HOF this year! (Original Post) Algernon Moncrieff Jan 2021 OP
Calling Schilling controversial is an understatement DeeDeeNY Jan 2021 #1
Personally, I think this is why baseball HoF is the best. We tend to only let the truly deserving in Capt. America Feb 2021 #2
Any year Schilling doesn't get in is a good year (nt) NoRethugFriends Mar 2021 #3
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