Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 1984

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The 1984 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 1964 or later, but not after 1978; the ballot included candidates from the 1983 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 1978. 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 29 players; a total of 403 ballots were cast, with 303 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 one candidate who received at least 75% of the vote and was elected is indicated in bold italics; candidates who have since been elected in subsequent elections are indicated in italics. The 10 candidates whoe received less than 5% of the vote, thus becoming ineligible for future BBWAA consideration, are indicated with a *.

Player	Votes	Percent
Luis Aparicio	341	84.6
Harmon Killebrew	335	83.1
Don Drysdale	316	78.4
Hoyt Wilhelm	290	72.0
Nellie Fox	246	61.0
Billy Williams	202	50.1
Jim Bunning	201	49.9
Orlando Cepeda	124	30.8
Tony Oliva	124	30.8
Roger Maris	107	26.6
Harvey Kuenn	106	26.3
Maury Wills	104	25.8
Lew Burdette	97	24.1
Bill Mazeroski	74	18.4
Roy Face	65	16.1
Elston Howard	45	11.2
Joe Torre	45	11.2
Thurman Munson	29	7.2
Don Larsen	25	6.2
†Wilbur Wood	14	3.5
†Jim Fregosi*	4	1.0
†Jim Bouton*	3	0.7
†Davey Johnson*	3	0.7
†Mickey Stanley*	2	0.5
†Bob Bailey*	1	0.2
†Nelson Briles*	1	0.2
†Clay Carroll	1	0.2
†Jim Colborn*	0	0.0
†Ron Fairly	0	0.0

Players eligible for the first time who were not included on the ballot were: Sandy Alomar, Andy Etchebarren, Al Fitzmorris, Tito Fuentes, Wayne Garrett, Cito Gaston, Larry Haney, Ed Herrmann, Joe Lahoud, Paul Lindblad, Dave May, Marty Perez, Bill Plummer, and Gary Sutherland.

[edit] External links

• 1984 Election at www.baseballhalloffame.org

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