Guess I'm back in the prediction business, since I correctly predicted Rickey Henderson and Jim Rice (right) would make it into the National Baseball Hall of Fame when the results of the election were announced at 2 p.m. today.
Wasn't exactly a stretch of the imagination. Rickey was a no-brainer and Rice's status as a borderline candidate probably had something to do with his horrible relationship with the baseball media during his playing career. In that case, time heals all wounds. I'm happy for him, though he was not a fun guy to be around in the 1980s.
To gain election, you have to be checked on 75 percent of the BBWAA ballots. Andre Dawson came relatively close again with 67 percent of the vote and Bert Blyleven was the only other candidate to be chosen on more than half the ballots (62 percent).
We'll see next year if they are able to get over the top the way Rice did this time. I would like to see both of them get in, but I still think Blyleven is the guy on the outside who most deserves to be in.
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