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When we look at the Baseball Hall of Fame vote totals for past elections, there are certain choices the writers madeáthat only puzzle us. Sometimes the puzzle is how the voters failed to choose a particular player.á For example, in 1979, Willie Mays was up for election. He was chosen, but 23 voters decided that Mays was not worthy of their vote. IÆve heard many arguments for a small Hall of Fame, ...

The writers did a poor job this year in the elections for the Baseball Hall of Fame.á Andre Dawson drew enough votes to gain election, while other, far more deserving candidates, were left to linger.á Dawson pulled in 77.9 percent of the votes, testimony to the idea that a veteran baseball writer will not let a complicated thing like the facts stand in the way of a good story. For generations, ...

This coming season marks the 40th anniversary of one of the finest teams in baseball history, the 1970 Baltimore Orioles. á A dominating team, whose central cast of players were responsible for six first-place finishes in a nine-year period, the 1970 version of the Birds saw everything going right. á The pennant race in 1970 was never a close thing in the AL East.á The Orioles, grouped with the Yankees, Tigers, Red Sox, ...

THE HALL OF FAME:á 75 YEARS OF ELECTORAL FUN á The Hall of Fame ballot is out. Now the fun starts.á I donÆt know who is going to get votes.á What I can do, though, is talk about who should be getting votes, by the standards of their era and the past elections to the Hall of Fame.á The Hall of Fame has never set out any clear criteria on who should ...