The Hall of Fame’s Classic Baseball Era Committee considers players, managers, umpires and executives who made their greatest impact before 1980. That’s a huge swath of the sport’s history — more than a century — so simply reaching the ballot is an achievement.
Now, for the eight candidates announced on Monday, there’s an even more grueling process: actually winning the vote. A 16-person committee will gather at the Winter Meetings next month, with a maximum of three votes per member and 75 percent needed for election.
The results of the election will be announced on Dec. 8. Here are some of the factors that the committee — whose members have not
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