Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 1982

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The 1982 elections to select inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame followed the same system in use since 1968. The Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) held an election to select among recent players. The BBWAA election applied a 75% rule to all eligible players, while the Veterans Committee met in closed-door sessions to select from players ineligible for the BBWAA election, as well as managers and executives.

[edit] BBWAA election

The BBWAA was authorized to elect players active in 1962 or later, but not after 1976; the ballot included candidates from the 1981 ballot who received at least 5% of the vote but were not elected, along with selected players, chosen by a screening committee, whose last appearance was in 1976. All 10-year members of the BBWAA were eligible to vote.

Voters were instructed to cast votes for up to 10 candidates; any candidate receiving votes on at least 75% of the ballots would be honored with induction to the Hall. The ballot consisted of 42 players; a total of 415 ballots were cast, with 312 votes required for election. Those candidates receiving less than 5% of the vote will not appear on future BBWAA ballots, but may eventually be considered by the Veterans Committee.

Candidates who were eligible for the first time are indicated here with a †. The two candidates who received at least 75% of the vote and were elected is indicated in bold italics; candidates who have since been elected in subsequent elections are indicated in italics. The 18 candidates whoe received less than 5% of the vote, thus becoming ineligible for future BBWAA consideration, are indicated with a *.

Player	Votes	Percent
†Hank Aaron	406	97.8
†Frank Robinson	370	89.2
Juan Marichal	305	73.5
Harmon Killebrew	246	59.3
Hoyt Wilhelm	236	56.9
Don Drysdale	233	56.1
Gil Hodges	205	49.4
Luis Aparicio	174	41.9
Jim Bunning	138	33.3
Red Schoendienst	135	32.5
Nellie Fox	127	30.6
Richie Ashburn	126	30.4
†Billy Williams	97	23.4
Maury Wills	91	21.9
Roger Maris	69	16.6
†Tony Oliva	63	15.2
Harvey Kuenn	62	14.9
Lew Burdette	43	10.4
Orlando Cepeda	42	10.1
Elston Howard	40	9.6
Don Larsen	32	7.7
Bill Mazeroski	28	6.7
Thurman Munson	26	6.3
Roy Face	22	5.3
Vada Pinson	6	1.4
†Tommy Davis*	5	1.2
Dave McNally	5	1.2
Lindy McDaniel*	3	0.7
†Rico Petrocelli*	3	0.7
†Jim Brewer*	2	0.5
†Bill Freehan*	2	0.5
Leo Cardenas*	1	0.2
Claude Osteen*	1	0.2
Gates Brown*	0	0.0
†Tommy Harper*	0	0.0
†Alex Johnson*	0	0.0
†Deron Johnson*	0	0.0
†Cleon Jones*	0	0.0
Jim Northrup*	0	0.0
Sonny Siebert*	0	0.0
†Tony Taylor*	0	0.0
†Cesar Tovar*	0	0.0

Players eligible for the first time who were not icluded on the ballot were: Dick Bosman, Buddy Bradford, Nate Colbert, Dave Duncan, Alan Foster, Danny Frisella, Ted Kubiak, Bob Moose, Blue Moon Odom, Fritz Peterson, and Ken Sanders.

[edit] External links

• 1982 Election at www.baseballhalloffame.org

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