With the recent announcement of the class, or lack thereof, of inductees to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2021, the discussions that preceded Tuesday’s results only seemed to further fester. One would have to go back to 1960 to find the most recent case of no new elected players to the hallowed halls of Cooperstown.
This year’s most topical case, the always-outspoken Curt Schilling, received 71.1 percent of the vote in his 9th year of eligibility, the most of any player on the ballot, and just 16 votes short of the required 75-percent needed.