1970 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting
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New inductees | 4 |
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via BBWAA | 1 |
via Veterans Committee | 3 |
Total inductees | 118 |
Induction date | July 27, 1970 |
Elections to the
BBWAA election
The BBWAA was authorized to elect players active in 1950 or later, but not after 1964; the ballot included candidates from the 1969 ballot along with selected players, chosen by a screening committee, whose last appearance was in 1964. All 10-year members of the BBWAA were eligible to vote.
Voters were instructed to cast votes for up to 10 candidates; any candidate receiving votes on at least 75% of the ballots would be honored with induction to the Hall. The ballot consisted of 46 players; a total of 300 ballots were cast, with 225 votes required for election. A total of 2,302 individual votes were cast, an average of 7.67 per ballot.
Candidates who were eligible for the first time are indicated here with a dagger (†). The one candidate who received at least 75% of the vote and was elected is indicated in bold italics; candidates who have since been elected in subsequent elections are indicated in italics.
Joe Gordon, Tommy Henrich and Bucky Walters were on the ballot for the final time.
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Players eligible for the first time who were not included on the ballot were:
(who would eventually be inducted into the Hall of Fame as a manager in 2008).J. G. Taylor Spink Award
References
- ^ Logan, Bob (July 28, 1970). "Lou Boudreau Enters 'Hall'". Chicago Tribune. p. 3-1. Retrieved October 12, 2019 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ "1969 BBWAA Career Excellence Award Winner Sid Mercer".
External links
- 1970 Election at www.baseballhalloffame.org