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Goose time?

December
26

Looks as if Goose Gossage might finally get into the Hall of Fame.

For those interested, ESPN’s Keith Law is tabulating an unofficial, running vote count on his blog at http://www.meadowparty.com/blog/?p=113 .

Gossage has been named on 45 of the 50 ballots (90 percent) Law has been able to uncover so far. Players need to receive 75 percent of the votes for induction. Bert Blyleven remains on the bubble at 70 percent, second most among voters tabbed so far. Andre Dawson and Jim Rice are both at 68 percent, Jack Morris at 50 percent and nobody else over 42 percent.

Players with fewer than five percent of the votes are dropped from next year’s and future ballots. Don Mattingly had received just one vote (2 percent) so far.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 at 5:56 pm by Carp.
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