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In the BBWAA election, voters were again instructed to cast votes for 10 candidates, but were now discouraged from casting votes for active players (though some player-managers whose playing days were largely over, such as Rogers Hornsby, received votes). Any candidate receiving votes on at least 75% of the ballots would be honored with induction to the Hall upon its opening in the sport's supposed centennial year of 1939 . Again, individuals who had been barred from baseball were not formally ineligible; Hal Chase received some votes, though Shoeless Joe Jackson did not. THE BBWAA VOTE A total of 201 ballots were cast, with 1949 individual votes for 113 specific candidates; 151 votes were required for election. Selections were announced on January 19, 1937. The three candidates who received at least 75% of the vote and were elected are indicated in ''bold italics''; candidates who have since been selected in subsequent elections are indicated in ''italics'':
THE CENTENNIAL COMMISSION After the error-ridden 1936 Veterans election failed to select any 19th century players, the Hall opted in 1937 to have a small committee select inductees "for outstanding service to base ball apart from playing the game." The Commission's members were: Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis ; National League president Ford Frick ; American League president Will Harridge ; Judge William G. Bramham , president of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (the minor league overseeing body); former NL president John Heydler ; and George Trautman , president of the minor league American Association and chairman of the National Association's executive committee. At the December 1937 major league winter meetings in Chicago, Frick announced that the Commission had elected:
Of the five selectees, only Mack was still living when the selections were made. |
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