{"id":149668,"date":"2022-12-06T10:50:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T10:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/baseball-hall-of-fame-panel-sends-fred-mcgriff-to-cooperstown\/"},"modified":"2022-12-06T10:50:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T10:50:06","slug":"baseball-hall-of-fame-panel-sends-fred-mcgriff-to-cooperstown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/baseball-hall-of-fame-panel-sends-fred-mcgriff-to-cooperstown\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Hall of Fame panel sends Fred McGriff to Cooperstown"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The long wait for Baseball Hall of Fame recognition is finally over for Fred McGriff.<\/p>\n

McGriff was unanimously elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame through a vote by the Hall’s “Contemporary Era” committee, earning all 16 votes as others who dropped off the writers’ ballot saw their support shrivel.<\/p>\n

Yankees great Don Mattingly received eight votes and pitcher Curt Schilling seven, falling well short of the 12 needed for election. Two-time Atlanta Braves MVP Dale Murphy earned six votes. <\/p>\n

But slugger Barry Bonds \u2014 a seven-time MVP \u2014 and pitcher Roger Clemens \u2014 a seven-time Cy Young Award winner \u2014 failed to garner at least four votes. That significantly less than 25% support is a dropoff from the 66% and 65% of votes Bonds and Clemens received, respectively, from the Baseball Writers’ Assn. of America in their final year on that ballot.<\/p>\n