Gil Hodges, Buck O’Neil among the 6 elected to Hall of Fame

The Baseball Corridor of Fame will formally have six more customers by means of its committee voting, even as one particular of its most effective candidates missed the honor by the narrowest of margins. For a next time.

Listed here are the names, with a fast resume, declared by Corridor of Fame president Josh Rawitch on Sunday via MLB Community:

• Minnie Miñoso: A 9-time MLB All-Star and previous Negro Leagues All-Star who became recognised as Mr. White Sox for his many years with the staff.

• Gil Hodges: A longtime Dodgers (initially Brooklyn then Los Angeles) initially baseman who won two Planet Collection with the team and also oversaw the Wonder Mets 1969 championship as manager.

• Jim Kaat: A Minnesota Twins southpaw identified for his longevity and fielding, both evidenced by his 16 occupation Gold Glove awards, tied for second-most over-all behind Greg Maddux.

• Tony Oliva: A different Twins star who turned the to start with rookie to earn a batting title (which only Ichiro Suzuki has carried out due to the fact) and also acquired a Rookie of the Year award, two extra titles and 8 All-Star nods, as well as two World Collection titles as a coach.

• Buck O’Neil: A Negro Leagues participant and supervisor who became the very first Black coach in AL/NL historical past and helped produce the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.

• Bud Fowler: The earliest known African-American participant in expert baseball.

Kaat and Oliva are the only players who are not receiving the honor posthumously.

The very first 4 gamers have been elected by using the Golden Times Period ballot, when the latter two were being picked by the Early Baseball Period Ballot. Every single committee highlighted 16 voters with up to 4 votes each and every. Candidates desired at minimum 12 votes to acquire enshrinement.

Dick Allen misses Corridor of Fame when once again

Unfortunately, that format meant bitter disappointment for Philadelphia Phillies star Dick Allen.

Allen, a seven-time All-Star who died previous December, has prolonged been regarded as 1 of the greatest players now not in the Corridor. He skipped out on enshrinement by just one particular vote in the committee election in 2014, and the similar destiny befell him this yr.

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He missed out with only 11 votes, by using the Hall of Fame’s vote tabulations:

Creating the circumstance even more discouraging is that some of the 5 voters who didn’t decide on Allen almost certainly did believe he was worthy. They just had only four votes, so they were constrained in a rather competitive year of choices.