LAS VEGAS • He led the league in saves with five different teams, retired as the all-time leader in saves, and then Lee Smith watched the role he helped define change, shorten, and his support for the Hall of Fame change, shrink.
In a vote of the Hall's Today's Game Era committee, Smith was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday as long with Harold Baines. Both players received at least 12 votes from a 16-person panel that met Sunday at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on the first day of the winter meetings.