The Only Two - Cal and Tony are now Immortals...
Cal Ripken and Tony Gwynn on Tuesday will officially be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in July. Congratulations to both men, as they got on their first year on the ballot.
According to the AP, Ripken was picked by 537 voters, appearing on 98.5 percent of ballots, falling just short of the record percentage of 98.84 set by Tom Seaver when he was selected on 425 of 430 ballots in 1992. Gwynn was just behind Cal with 532 votes, 97.6 percent.
Goose Gossage barely missed getting in with 71.2 percent of the vote, just a few percentage points of getting to the Hall. Mark McGwire only got 23% of the vote.
It's good day for all us Oriole fans, let us all walk with heads held high and be proud...Flash Presentation from the Baltimore Sun: Link
4 comments:
There's nothing more to say. What a great day it is to be an O's fan (and god knows we haven't had many of those in the past few years!)
Yeah, Kara. That's for sure. I'll see if I can get home and maybe upload some video of the news today.
The only problem is that I live outside of the immediate Baltimore area and get the Washington DC channels only via satellite cable.
I dare the Hall of Fame to ever attempt to induct a classier duo ever in the future.
Though Goose Gossage should've been right alongside that duo as I'm sure that he will join them in the near future.
Well said, Alan.
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