One more vote would have been so sweet for Lou.
Yes, just one vote. Former Seattle Mariners manager Lou Piniella needed 12 votes from the 16 members of the Today’s Game Era Committee to earn election into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and it was announced Sunday at the first day of MLB’s winter meetings in Las Vegas that he fell short with 11 total votes.
Piniella just missed joining Harold Baines and Lee Smith as those who will be enshrined in Cooperstown on July 21. The others nominated for the Today’s Game Era ballot who were not elected to the Hall of Fame were Albert Belle, Will Clark, Orel Hershiser, Davey Johnson, Charlie Manuel and George Steinbrenner.