McGwire, Selig, Steinbrenner on new Hall of Fame ballot

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

McGwire, Selig, Steinbrenner on new Hall of Fame ballot

Associated Press
4:55 PM EDT

NEW YORK -- Mark McGwire is getting another swing at the Hall of Fame.

The former slugger who admitted using steroids joins Bud Selig, George Steinbrenner and seven others on the Today's Game Era ballot to be considered for election to Cooperstown in December.

The announcement was made Monday by the Baseball Hall of Fame. The ballot is part of changes to the election process announced by the Hall's board of directors in July. It includes five players, three executives and two managers who made their biggest impact from 1988 on.

Harold Baines, Albert Belle, Will Clark, Orel Hershiser, Davey Johnson, Lou Piniella and John Schuerholz round out the class of 2017 candidates on the new ballot.

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[El Supremo]

1. Baines and Clark!!!

[KamaAina]

4. Clark, you say?

I doubt very much he would go in as a Ranger.

[JonLP24]

2. Is this the douches ticket?

[Auggie]

3. I think Hershiser ...

Baines and Clark, maybe?

Please, not McGwire, Belle, $elig or $teinbrenner

[joeybee12]

5. steinbrenner will get in because of the large number of NY writers

Who vote.

Nobody seems a lock.

[madinmaryland]

6. One of the weakest classes in many years. I don't think any of them get in, though

Orel Hershiser may make it into the Crossword Puzzle Hall of Fame, given that he seems to be a clue in a shitload of crosswords I have worked.

[Auggie]

7. Crosswords!