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On January 6, 2016, Griffey was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, receiving 99.32 percent of the vote, breaking the record previously held by Tom Seaver's 98.84 percent in 1992. [8] A flag bearing Griffey's number 24 was flown from the Space Needle following the announcement. [ 120 ]
Ken Griffey Jr. (left) and Mike Piazza, the two inductees of 2016 Elections to the Baseball Hall of Fame for 2016 proceeded according to rules most recently amended in 2015. . As in the past, the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) voted by mail to select from a ballot of recently retired players, with results announced on January 6, 2016; Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza were ...
No first overall pick was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame until 2016, when Ken Griffey Jr. was inducted with a record 99.3 percent of votes cast. [6] Griffey has since been joined by three other top picks: Chipper Jones , inducted in 2018 ; [ 7 ] Harold Baines , elected in December 2018 and inducted in July 2019 , [ 8 ] and Joe ...
As a result, Ichiro will be added to the list of greats who came close to being unanimous selections — a list that includes Ken Griffey Jr. (3 votes shy), Ty Cobb (4), Tom Seaver (5), Nolan Ryan ...
A record 32.5 million votes were cast, beating out the previous record from 2009 by roughly 9 million. [17] José Bautista was the leading vote-getter with 7,454,753 votes, easily breaking the previous single-player vote record of 6,069,688 held by Ken Griffey Jr. [17] [18] Three other American League players also topped Griffey's record.
Ken Griffey Jr. is making good on his pledge to support LeBron and Bronny James! The retired Hall of Fame slugger plans to be in attendance on opening night of the NBA season on Tuesday, Oct. 22 ...
Griffey was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2016 after a 22-year big league career spent mostly with the Seattle Mariners and Cincinnati Reds. He was a 13-time All-Star and hit 630 home runs, which ...
In 1999, the Major League Baseball All-Century Team was chosen by popular vote of fans. To select the team, a panel of experts first compiled a list of the 100 greatest Major League Baseball (MLB) players from the 20th century. Over two million fans then voted on the players using paper and online ballots. [1]