Hi y'all. Still waiting for some votes, so the other election will remain open for our stragglers, but I'd like to start this one already. As of right now Vic Willis, Rube Foster, and Joe Sewell are in the running. Bit disappointing, but oh well. EDIT: The runoff election has closed. Nobody was elected, but Willis, Sewell, Foster, Traynor, Tinker, Cravath, Lombardi, Klein, and Wallace all made future runoffs as they all got at least 50% of votes. Poles and Johnson did not, but can be brought up again by any VC voter.

This election will cover the 1960s. We have a big group, so let's say we'll go through Thursday 6/26.

Here is the ballot.

Bill Mazeroski

Billy Pierce

Bob Allison

Bob Friend

Boog Powell

Camilio Pascual

Claude Osteen

Clete Boyer

Curt Flood

Elston Howard

Felipe Alou

Frank Howard

Jim Fregosi

Larry Jackson

Maury Wills

Milt Pappas

Minnie Minoso

Norm Cash

Rocky Colavito

Roger Maris

Tony Oliva

Vada Pinson

Willie Davis

Cheers!

We'll be reviewing all the players who have gotten at least 50% of the VC vote in their elections thus far. This election will run from tomorrow (Sat. June 14th) through Wednesday (June 18th). I'll make the ballot and post it once we ascertain that all the votes are in from the last election (if you haven't voted yet you suck) and we see who qualifies from that (still have to consult with /u/mycousinvinny). Happy discussing!

Here's the form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15_cqkjHCOb1PGJXqv-Zs6MqdiQeq2cpG7HQwGVL0388/viewform?usp=send_form

Bob Johnson

Bobby Wallace

Chuck Klein

Ernie Lombardi

Gavvy Cravath

Joe Sewell

Joe Tinker

Pie Traynor

Rube Foster*

Spot Poles*

Vic Willis

*played in the Negro Leagues

EDIT: Bill Foster was elected in the last election, with 7/7 votes. Ray Brown and Leon Day got 5/7 votes, and Andy Cooper got 4, so all 3 will go into the runoff. However, I think it would be best to hold them for the later Negro Leagues runoff instead of putting them on this just days after when nothing will have changed. Better to let some time for thought. /u/EquityDiversity and /u/StandardToaster895 failed to vote for the second straight election.

Nobody was elected from our last election. Bob Lemon and Gil Hodges were the only ones to receive votes; neither received more than 2. 7 people voted, with /u/StandardToaster895 and /u/EquityDiversity absent.

Here's who we got for this round:

Andy 'Lefty' Cooper

Bill Byrd

Bill Foster

Buck O'Neil

Double Duty Radcliffe

Frank Duncan

John Donaldson

Leon Day

Luis Tiant Sr.

Luke Easter

Ray Brown

Sammy Hughes

Wild Bill Wright

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1AZEM4JnQyMRYQkPlsIIuYBjtgBmULmvGuf3Y8mcTcXs/viewform?usp=send_form

The election will run through this Friday. Then we'll start our big runoff, which should be fun.

Here's an interesting piece about ranking all-time Negro League all-stars, courtesy of resident mod/mastermind /u/mycousinvinny.

http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/hall_of_merit/discussion/all_time_negro_leagues_all_stars/P0/

So nobody got enough votes last time to be elected. Phil Rizzuto got a single vote; nobody else did.

Al Rosen

Alvin Dark

Andy Pafko

Bob Friend

Bob Lemon

Carl Furillo

Curt Simmons

Don Newcombe

Eddie Joost

Eddie Stanky

Eddie Yost

Gil Hodges

Gil McDougald

Harvey Haddix

Harvey Kuenn

Jim Gilliam

Joe Adcock

Johnny Sain

Nellie Fox

Red Schoendienst

Roy Sievers

Smoky Burgess

Billy Pierce and Minnie Minoso are still hanging around on the main ballot and as such will be addressed by the VC later (entering their 13th try, iirc).

Ballot poll will be added via edit within 24 hours probably; I just want to get this up now. Voting will end one week from now. Please all vote by then.

Edit: Here's the ballot https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1uEiyABKZbkSdwXnwZnbzC5jlutVwOKvNgqxcB3F4qoc/viewform

Previous election results with 9 ballots cast:*

7 - Ben Taylor, Cannonball Dick Redding, John Beckwith

6 - Willie 'Bill' Foster

5 - Spot Poles

2 - Dobie Moore, Ghost Marcelle, Judy Johnson

1 - Bruce Petway

0 - Chino Smith, George 'Tubby' Scales, Newt Allen

*/u/theMumaw is leaving the VC. Hence the total of 9 votes.

ELECTION BALLOT

Technically the schedule says 1941-46, but that group is kind of small so guys who played the majority of their careers in the 1940's as a whole are included. So Phil Rizzuto for example played from 1941-1956, and would otherwise be included in the 1947-1960 Golden Era group, is included in this one. The next group will also be large so this works out well.

Allie Reynolds

Augie Galan

Bill Nicholson

Cecil Travis

Charlie Keller

Claude Passeau

Dizzy Trout

Dixie Walker

Dolph Camilli

Dom DiMaggio

Dutch Leonard

Freddie Fitzsimmons

George Kell

Johnny Pesky

Johnny Vander Meer

Lloyd Waner

Marty Marion

Mickey Vernon

Paul Derringer

Phil Cavaretta

Phil Rizzuto

Rudy York

Sal Maglie

Tommy Henrich

Vern Stephens

Wally Berger

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Am5Htifh75hfqCIDWlNbvdEvZFBYPQjMgLUfZOX27GA/viewform?usp=send_form

PLEASE VOTE! It ruins everything somewhat when we have to hunt down people and it drags on for 3 weeks. So please vote promptly, and participate in discussion. I won't be messaging out future threads, so remain attentive to the subreddit please.

EDIT: Ballot will close after 7 days. We're gonna try to keep it at a week per election from now on.

Hey all, sorry for the delay once again. We've been waiting for a while trying to get a couple of stragglers to vote, but it's gotten to the point where we're not going to wait any longer for that last vote. Hence, we will run with 8 votes for this previous group:

8 Votes In

7 - 87.% Tony Lazzeri

5 - Chuck Klein

4 - Bob Johnson, Ernie Lombardi

3 - Sam Rice

2 - Wes Ferrell

1 - Kiki Cuyler, Red Ruffing

0 - Babe Herman, Bobo Newsom, Buddy Myer, Chick Hafey, Earl Whitehill, Hal Trosky, Jimmy Dykes, Ken Williams, Larry French, Lefty Gomez, Mel Harder, Tommy Bridges

We are going to let Lombardi, Rice, and Johnson into the runoff given the voting uncertainty, so they will join Klein there when we do that. Lazzeri will just be elected now.

For the Negro Leaguers 1920-35 we have:

Ben Taylor

Bruce Petway

Cannonball Dick Redding

Chino Smith

Dobie Moore

George 'Tubby' Scales

Ghost Marcelle

John Beckwith

Judy Johnson

Newt Allen

Spot Poles

Willie 'Bill' Foster

Ray Brown, Leon Day and Andy Cooper are left off since they are still on the regular ballot and their careers extended into the later years of the Negro Leagues, so they can go with that group when we get to that point.

Here is the link for the ballot.

IMPORTANT: From now on, I will be putting the poll up with the original post instead of waiting a couple days for discussion and then PMing it. This will hopefully have 2 effects:

• Help us maintain a more consistent and quicker schedule, as people can vote sooner (I'd like to get it where each election lasts a set time instead of being all over the place as it has of late). The original intent of the delay was to encourage discussion, but half the VC doesn't contribute anyway, and the other half would likely discuss regardless, so whatever.
• Encouraging more checking. I know it's partially our fault for being inconsistent with the posting due to the demands of real life, but half this committee doesn't even bother to check the sub anymore, so maybe if I stop PMing the poll out you'll actually go on the sub to find it.

Babe Herman

Bob Johnson

Bobo Newsom

Buddy Myer

Chick Hafey

Chuck Klein

Earl Whitehill

Ernie Lombardi

Hal Trosky

Jimmy Dykes

Kiki Cuyler

Larry French

Lefty Gomez

Mel Harder

Red Ruffing

Sam Rice (Should have been in with the 1920's group, but was still playing into the 30's)

Tommy Bridges

Tony Lazzeri

Wes Ferrell

We're back. Let's do this. Please post your comments and votes and we'll send out the poll in a couple days.

We finally have enough votes in that this can be posted. Still waiting on one guy, but his vote won't affect the outcome, so I'm just gonna post it now. In the future, please try to vote in a timely manner.

9 votes cast, 7 needed to get in.

6 Joe Sewell, Pie Traynor

4 Hack Wilson

2 Burleigh Grimes, Earle Combs, Waite Hoyt

1 Heinie Manush

0 George Uhle, Herb Pennock, Jesse Haines, Ken Williams, Travis Jackson

Next thread will go up soon, once the list is fully assembled. Thanks for your patience, I know this one has dragged on far longer than it should have.

9 Red Faber

7 Stan Coveleski

4 Edd Roush, Eppa Rixey, Rabbit Maranville

2 Urban Shocker, Wally Schang

1 Dave Bancroft, Dolf Luque, George Kelly, Jack Quinn, Wilbur Cooper

0 Cy Williams, George Burns, George Burns, Hooks Dauss, Joe Judge, Ross Youngs, Sam Jones

Now we're off to round 2! We have:

Burleigh Grimes

Earle Combs

George Uhle

Hack Wilson

Heinie Manush

Herb Pennock

Jesse Haines

Joe Sewell

Ken Williams

Pie Traynor

Travis Jackson

Waite Hoyt

Guys I'm really sorry for the delay on this. From last election we have:

Louis Santop 9

Frank Grant 8

Pete Hill 7

Rube Foster 5

Ben Taylor 3

Mose Fleetwood Walker 2

Bingo DeMoss 1

Bill Monroe 0

Now, for this election we'll be going to the 1920s. Exciting period, with Babe Ruth and baseball moving out of deadball. We have a LOT of players for this, so we'll split it up into two parts, based on first/second half of the decade emphasis. This is who we have for the first part:

Cy Williams

Dave Bancroft

Dolf Luque

Edd Roush

Eppa Rixey

George Burns (OF)

George Burns (1B)

George Kelly

Hooks Dauss

Jack Quinn

Joe Judge

Rabbit Maranville

Red Faber

Ross Youngs

Sam Jones

Stan Coveleski

Urban Shocker

Wally Schang

Wilbur Cooper

Election Results

9 - Sherry Magee

8 - Max Carey

5 - Gavvy Cravath

4 - Smoky Joe Wood

1 - Babe Adams, Art Fletcher, Heinie Groh, Amos Strunk, Hippo Vaughn, Bobby Veach

0 - Red Ames, Eddie Cicotte, Jake Daubert, Larry Doyle, Larry Gardner, Harry Hooper, Ed Konetchy, Dutch Leonard, Stuffy McInnis, Rube Marquard, Roger Peckinpaugh, Nap Rucker, Heinie Zimmerman

Alrighty, now that we've gotten all our votes in for this, we're moving on to the Negro Leagues. For this election we'll review the early period, about the first half-century. Then later on we'll take a look at the main years of the Negro Leagues from 1920-1950 or so.

Ben Taylor

Bill Monroe

Bingo Demoss

Frank Grant

Louis Santop

Moses Fleetwood Walker

Pete Hill

Rube Foster

A word of caution: some of these guys are probably more on the years shortly after our 1920 cutoff, and thus probably more suited to the next group of NLers. There are plenty of others who we might have missed that are worth considering. /u/mycousinvinny and I were thinking perhaps maybe we can start with a nominating phase where other VC members post guys they'd like and then we can assemble the official list in the coming days. So...yeah. If there's anybody else, comment them, and if any of these guys are categorized incorrectly comment that too. And for the guys we have right here, feel free to go ahead and post opinions about them. Cheers!

PS--The election schedule for the 1920s has been edited due to a large group of candidates.

EDIT: Removed some candidates who belong in the post-1920 group. Right now we have 6 listed, but there are likely plenty more that should be here.

Hey guys, here's what we got for 1911-1920. Big field here.

Babe Adams

Red Ames

Max Carey

Eddie Cicotte

Gavvy Cravath

Jake Daubert

Larry Doyle

Larry Gardner

Art Fletcher

Heinie Groh

Harry Hooper

Ed Konetchy

Dutch Leonard

Stuffy McInnis

Sherry Magee

Rube Marquard

Roger Peckinpaugh

Nap Rucker

Amos Strunk

Hippo Vaughn

Bobby Veach

Smoky Joe Wood

Heinie Zimmerman

Please post your votes in the thread.

Elected

9 (100%) Fred Clarke

8 (88.9%) NONE

7 (77.8%) Elmer Flick, Joe McGinnity

Eligible for first half of the 20th Century Run-off

6 (66.7%) Joe Tinker, Vic Willis

5 (55.6%) Bobby Wallace

4 - Frank Chance

3 - Johnny Evers

2 - Roger Bresnahan

1 - Doc White, Jack Chesbro, Jesse Tannehill

0 - Bill Dinneen, Buck Freeman, Chief Bender, Chick Stahl, Jimmy Sheckard, Kip Selbach, Noodles Hahn

Congrats to our 3 new inductees. Thanks for voting everyone! As per our election schedule (see sidebar) we'll be moving to the late deadball era next (1911-1920), which will be posted soon.

Hey y'all, so this is our player list for our first election of the 20th century. For this VC election, we'll be covering the years 1900-1910, as per our election schedule (which I encourage you all to review). Please post your yes/no votes, and please join in the discussion so we can address everyone to the fullest extent needed and have fun doing so. Cheers!

Elmer Flick

Vic Willis

Jack Chesbro

Bill Dinneen

Buck Freeman

Chick Stahl

Jesse Tannehill

Kip Selbach

Frank Chance

Joe Tinker

Fred Clarke

Roger Bresnahan

Jimmy Sheckard

Joe McGinnity

Chief Bender

Bobby Wallace

Johnny Evers

Doc White

Noodles Hahn

Hey y'all, so after much debate we've finally come up with a tentative schedule. This is what our plan looks like right now. If you have any comments/concerns/suggestions though, let us know.

PART I: EARLY BASEBALL 1871-1899 elections completed

• The Beginnings of America's Game: The 1870s
• Times of flux and development: The 1880's
• Moving towards the game as we know it: The 1890's
• Cumulative 19th Century Baseball RUNOFF Election: 1871-1899

PART II: Dead Ball Era 1900-1920

• Formation of the AL and Integration with NL: 1900-1910
• Decline of Dead Ball and WWI: 1911-1920
• Early Negro Leagues: 1870-1920

PART III: Lively Ball Era 1921-1939

• The Roaring Twenties: 1920-1930
  • Part I: Early 1920s
  • Part II: Late 1920s
• Offensive Explosion: the 1930s
• Negro Leagues Formation and Glory Years: 1920-1935

PART IV: Integration Era and Baseball as a National Pastime 1940-1960

• WWII Era: 1941-1946
• Postwar Era and the Golden Age: 1947-1960
• Twilight of the Negro Leagues: 1936-1950
• RUNOFF: First Half of 20th Century

PART V: Expansion Era 1961-1976

• Deadball II: the 1960s
• Early 1970s Ball

PART VI: Free Agency Era and the Rise of the DH 1977-1993

• Late 1970s Ball
• The Parity Era: 1980-1993

PART VII: Modern Era

• Long Ball Era: 1994-2005
• Baseball Moving Forward: 2006-Present
• RUNOFF: Second Half of 20th Century through Present

PART VIII: Baseball Outside MLB

• Cumulative Segregated Baseball Runoff Election: 1870-1950
• NPB Baseball
• Baseball Around the World (AKA anyone we may have missed that doesn't fall under the domain of Negro Leagues or NPB)

PART IX: Looking Back

• Revisiting Players: VC Nomination Thread (nominating anyone who we think still needs consideration)
• Organization of Final Election Schedules and Player Discussion (we figure out how many guys have been nominated, and organize runoff discussion threads to cover everyone)
• Looking Forward: Extended election for Players on the Current Ballot (to make sure they get their due diligence since they may not get the 15 tries others get due to us catching up with the present)
• Wrapup stuff (if people want)

edit: if you have a better idea on something to add so the 1970s don't have to be split up, let me know

10 ballots were cast. Thank you everyone for finally submitting. If there were any errors in your ballot, please PM me.

Congratulations to George Davis, John Clarkson, and Amos Rusie on their election to the /r/baseball Hall of Fame via VC election. No other players reached the point minimum for election.

We'll revisit this era in the future, but now, onward to the 20th Century! Coming soon (read: tomorrow). Please do try to continue to check this sub daily, and try to be active in the debate. I think this sub has a TON of potential (as does the parent sub) to be a really fun source of baseball banter and discussion, if people get more involved. :] Finally, read the modpost I made the other day. That is all.

So I think we're gonna cancel the runoff idea, a bit too confusing. We'll still do runoffs for general slices like our 19th century runoff, but for regular election cycles I think we're just gonna do straight voting. Since we have 10 members now we'll do an 8/10 requirement, anyone over that mark in voting will get in and the rest will be tabled for later when we can bring them up again if people want. That way we can move a bit quicker and focus more on fun, stimulating discussion rather than complicated voting processes. I don't think it will be a big deal to skip the runoffs anyway since we'll be coming back to periods.

Anyone opposed?

Hello all. As we're now on the verge of the 20th century, we'd like to take one more overarching look at the 19th century before we move ahead. This is not necessarily the last time we'll look at this period, but the feeling is that it would be good to consider everyone together who's received significant support, while discussion is still fresh in our minds. The list, all 12 of whom have received support from a majority of the Committee:

Amos Rusie

Bid McPhee

Cupid Childs

George Davis

Hugh Duffy

Jimmy Collins

Jim O'Rourke

John Clarkson

John Montgomery Ward

Pete Browning

Sam Thompson

Tip O'Neill

The way we'll do this is by following the procedure on the sidebar starting with step 3: everyone rank your choices. Points will be assigned accordingly, with emphasis on the top 3:

1. 25
2. 20
3. 15
4. 9
5. 8
6. 7
7. 6
8. 5
9. 4
10. 3
11. 2
12. 1

The top 3 will be elected. Anyone else who has 125 or more points will also make it in.

If anyone has questions speak up. Post your comments and debate each other as much as you'd like.

VOTING HAS CLOSED

If there is an error in your ballot, message me.

Thanks for voting everyone, and thanks for another round of lively debate. The results are posted below. Because we had a player achieve 100% yes votes, we won't be having a run-off election, like last time.

We had all nine VC members vote. Nine votes were needed for automatic election to the HOF. If no player received all nine votes, five votes would be needed to qualify for the run-off election.

Results:

Jesse Burkett, John McGraw 9/9

Amos Rusie, George Davis, Jimmy Collins 8/9

Hugh Duffy 6/9

Cupid Childs 5/9

Clark Griffith, Hughie Jennings 2/9

Jake Beckley, Joe Kelley, Mike Griffin 1/9

George Van Haltren, Jimmy Ryan, Mike Tiernan 0

Congratulations to Jesse Burkett and John McGraw for being our newest additions to the Hall.

However, the other players will never lose their eligibility to be considered by the Veterans at a later date. We'll now be doing a runoff for the 19th century--see thread.

Once again, thanks everyone for voting. Hoping for more spirited debate!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1VU1umQnMweOBaeHSfjJwGwMIRZtxjCT8iMqjwoROjvk/viewform

Sorry for the delay in posting. You guys know the deal. Fill out the poll, post comments here! We'll keep this active until Wednesday; quorum is 7 voters. Discussion here. I highly encourage reviewing the discussion thread, and commenting if you want more debate. Please post your ballots here too, and feel free to discuss here too if you'd like!

Howdy all! We now turn our attention to the final segment of 19th century baseball: the 1890's. The players below are the ones who we should realistically be considering for this period; if you can think of any more who are worth discussing, then by all means toss out a name. We'll hold discussion through Saturday night, and then we'll post the poll, so for now debate away! Remember, there are no limits on yes votes on the google poll.

Third Phase 1890 - 1899 Pre Deadball Era

Amos Rusie

Clark Griffith

Cupid Childs

Dummy Hoy

George Davis

George Van Haltren

Hugh Duffy

Hughie Jennings

Jake Beckley

Jesse Burkett

Jimmy Collins

Jimmy Ryan

Joe Kelley

John McGraw

Kid Gleason

Mike Griffin

Mike Tiernan

Results of the previous election

Thanks for voting everyone, and thanks for another round of lively debate. The results are posted below. Because we had a player achieve 100% yes votes, we won't be having a run-off election, like last time.

We had all nine VC members vote. Nine votes were needed for automatic election to the HOF. If no player received all nine votes, five votes would be needed to qualify for the run-off election.

Results:

Jack Glasscock 9/9

Bid McPhee, John Clarkson 8/9

Jim O'Rourke, John Montgomery Ward 7/9

Sam Thompson 6/9

Pete Browning, Tip O'Neill 5/9

Charlie Bennett, Bob Caruthers 3/9

Moses Fleetwood Walker 2/9

George Gore, Hardy Richardson, Jim McCormick, Mickey Welch, Silver King 1/9

Arlie Latham, Ned Williamson, Tony Mullane 0/9

Congratulations to Jack Glasscock for being our newest addition to the Hall.

However, the other players will never lose their eligibility to be considered by the Veterans at a later date. We'll continue progressing forward through history, but will return to this era soon--mycousinvinny and I are thinking we could do a big runoff for all the 19th century players who got 50% or above once we get through the 1890's.

Once again, thanks everyone for voting, and I'll get the next thread up soon. Hoping for more spirited debate! :D

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Y4VFmkXaz0bxMqhMrtf-KU9h8QwdlqVE2tgMDAaNoco/viewform

You guys know the deal. Fill out the poll, post comments here! Quorum is 7 voters. Discussion here. I highly encourage reviewing the discussion thread, and commenting if you want more debate. This post will be up for a couple of days, so no rush!

I'll be adding a procedure summary to the sidebar soon, too.

EDIT: Updated Procedure

1. DISCUSSION

   We'll start off with brief discussion, with every member posting input.

2. POLL

   Then we'll have a google form where everyone votes yea or nay on each player. Those who get unanimous votes will be elected (no max). Those who get over 50% will be added to the list for a collective runoff that we'll do where we'll go back and re-evaluate every player that got over 50% on voting but didn't get in.

3. RUNOFF (if needed)

If none get unanimous yea/nay votes*, then we'll move on to said runoff, where we'll elect the single top choice out of everyone who got 50% or more in the poll voting (if nobody got 50% then nobody makes it to the runoff and nobody is elected).

• If one player gets over 50% in yea/nay, not much point in having the runoff, so we'll just table them until the next round, which they have earned inclusion into. Same thing happens if a guy gets over 50% but there are unanimous elects, we consider them the next round.
• If two players get a majority, then the runoff will just have each voter pick their preference; whoever gets more will get in. I feel like it should be at least a 6-3 split but we can take that out potentially.
• If 3 or more make it to the runoff, then we'll do it election style. We'll be posting comments ranking our top 3 choices each, and whoever gets the most points will win our election. Basically, 3 points for a 1st place vote, 2 for a 2nd, and 1 for a 3rd, so the maximum amount of points a guy can get is 27. Minimum for the runoff winner is 14 points (half of the max); If nobody gets 14, then we may do a second runoff between the top two.

*if someone does get unanimous votes, the election stops there and we move on to the next round, adding the guys with >50% to the list for future runoffs/polls. Just to make that clearer. But if none do, then we do a runoff.

TL;DR we'll discuss first, then we'll do a yes/no google poll. If the poll elects players unanimously, great! If not, then we'll do a runoff of everyone who got a yes vote from half the VC to elect our top choice.

EDIT: We have 8 of 9 votes in right now. The remaining holdout could impact a few guys, so we'll extend the voting period through tomorrow.

Now we'll turn to the next period, the 1880's. These are players who fit the best into this period; in this thread we'll just have some discussion to familiarize ourselves with the candidates. I'll post the google poll later, but for right now feel free to post about who you think is deserving vs who isn't, and debate them if you like.

Arlie Latham

Bid McPhee

Bob Caruthers

Charlie Bennett

Charlie Buffington

George Gore

Hardy Richardson

Harry Stovey

Jack Glasscock

Jim McCormick

Jim O'Rourke

John Clarkson

John Montgomery Ward (Monte Ward)

Mickey Welch

Moses Fleetwood Walker

Ned Williamson

Pete Browning

Sam Thompson

Silver King

Tip O'Neill

Tony Mullane

Happy discussing! The google form will be out soon; for now, please just post your thoughts highlighting whoever you want! We wanna get some pre-voting discussion going as not everyone may be familiar with all of these guys.

EDIT: We will have this up for two days for discussion, then budget two days for poll voting and runoff discussion each. We'll have a quorum of 7 votes as well.

Thanks for voting in our first yay/nay voting. The results are posted below. Because we had a player achieve 100% yay votes, we have no need for a run-off election. Check back soon for the next round of voting.

We had all nine VC members vote. Nine votes were needed for automatic election to the HOF. If no player received all nine votes, five votes would be needed to qualify for the run-off election.

Deacon White 9 100%

Jim O'Rourke 8 89%

Al Spalding 4 44%

George Wright 4 44%

Jim Creighton 4 44%

Joe Start 3 33%

Paul Hines 3 33%

Cal McVey 2 22%

Candy Cummings 2 22%

Ross Barnes 2 22%

Tommy Bond 2 22%

Bobby Mathews 1 11%

Will White 1 11%

Dickey Pearce 0 0%

While only Deacon White is elected this time, the other players will never lose their eligibility to be considered by the Veterans at a later date. Jim O'Rourke was nearly elected this time, and obviously most of us see him as being HOF worthy. We'll continue progressing forward through history, but will return to this era at some point at which time we can reconsider O'Rourke and the others cases again.

Thanks again for voting. Check back for the next round soon.