ESPN.com · Jan 26, 2019
Lessons learned from this year's Hall of Fame vote
The 2019 Hall of Fame election results, announced Tuesday, made history in multiple ways. We had the first unanimous selection by the Baseball Writers' Association of America in the institution's 83-year history (Mariano Rivera), the first posthumous selection by the writers since 1954 (Roy Halladay) and the third quartet anointed in the past five years (with Edgar Martinez and Mike Mussina joining the fun). With these eyes having spent hours poring over the minutiae of the @NotMrTibbs Hall of Fame ballot tracker and a master spreadsheet containing 54 years' worth of voting results, it's time to consider the bigger picture.