1988 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting
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New inductees | 1 |
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via BBWAA | 1 |
Total inductees | 200 |
Induction date | July 31, 1988 |
Elections to the
BBWAA election
The BBWAA was authorized to elect players active in 1968 or later, but not after 1982; the ballot included candidates from the 1987 ballot who received at least 5% of the vote but were not elected, along with selected players, chosen by a screening committee, whose last appearance was in 1982. 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 44 players; a total of 427 ballots were cast, with 321 votes required for election. A total of 2,819 individual votes were cast, an average of 6.60 per ballot. Those candidates receiving less than 5% of the vote will not appear on future BBWAA ballots, but may eventually be considered by the Veterans Committee.
Candidates who were eligible for the first time are indicated here with a dagger (†). The 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. The 20 candidates who received less than 5% of the vote, thus becoming ineligible for future BBWAA consideration, are indicated with an asterisk (*).
Roger Maris, Elston Howard and Don Larsen were on the ballot for the 15th and final time.
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The newly-eligible players included 21 All-Stars, two of whom were not included on the ballot, representing a total of 44 All-Star selections. Among the new candidates were 7-time All-Stars Willie Stargell and Reggie Smith, who were the only candidates to have been selected at least five times. The field included one MVP (Stargell), two Cy Young Award-winners (Randy Jones and Sparky Lyle) and one Rookie of the Year (Stan Bahnsen).
Players eligible for the first time who were not included on the ballot were:
.J. G. Taylor Spink Award
References
- ^ Holtzman, Jerome (August 1, 1988). "Stargell seeks fame as a boss". Chicago Tribune. p. 3-3. Retrieved October 9, 2019 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ "1987 BBWAA Career Excellence Award Winner Jim Murray".
External links
- 1988 Election at www.baseballhalloffame.org