These are the names just waiting around for the next ballot, hoping to get 55% of the vote and therefore join the greats in the Truly Great Names section. Some have been here a little longer than others, but all these older names have the distinction of being good enough to merit at least 20% of the nominations but not great enough to garner more than 55%. The end of list is the ten new names added to this ballot (ten names are added to every ballot) and represent the new blood, hoping for a quick and dirty entrance to enshrinement. May the best names win.
Names on Ballot Eight, with ballot they were introduced on in parenthesis, include:
Ben Gay (2)
Misty Hyman (3)
Ten Million (3)
Manli Wang (4)
Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo (6)
Pete LaCock (6)
Baskerville Holmes (6)
Jorge Poo Tang (7)
Doug Fister (7)
Alamazoo Jennings (7)
Bum-Ho Lee (7)
And the ten new names added for Ballot Eight are:
1. Seth Schwindenhammer
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For older ballots with names knocked off the ballot in the past, see here.
Oh no...did the GSNHOF ballot retire?
ReplyDeleteHahaha no....just...noticeably slowed. It'll be back one of these days!
ReplyDeleteWhere' the Mets' Angel Pagan?
ReplyDeleteHe'll get here eventually! He's been on the coming soon list for...a while haha.
ReplyDeleteI saw one on youtube just now... how about dick shiner (pittsburgh steelers)... here's a photo of his card:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.footballcardgallery.com/1969+Topps/64/Dick-Shiner/
How about Dick Pole?
ReplyDeleteDick Pole was actually eliminated on Ballot 3. You can see that here: http://greatsportsnamehalloffame.blogspot.com/2009/06/good-names-names-that-were-eliminated.html
ReplyDeleteI'm not awake enough to parse the other ballots, but have Buddy Biancalana, Onix Concepcion, Ivan DeJesus, Shooty Babitt (nickname?), Keena Turner, J.J. Putz, or Doug Fister been voted on yet?
ReplyDeleteNope. Nicknames aren't eligible, so no Shooty. But most of the rest will (hopefully) someday have their shot. Especially Fister.
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