by Adam Darowski
Hosted by Adam Darowski of Baseball Reference, Building the Ballot covers takes a deep dive into candidates for the Baseball Hall of Fame’s Era Committees. The Era Committee process replaced the old Veterans Committee process for the 2011 election. This podcast covers the Classic Baseball Era (beginning of time until 1979) and the Contemporary Baseball Era (1980 to present, split into a players ballot and a non-players ballot).
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September 9, 2024
<p>The calendar has changed to September. The air is cooler. The leaves are changing colors. The kids are back at school. That means it's Hall of Fame season!</p> <p>This winter, the Classic Baseball Era Committee will meet to discuss candidates who made their mark on the game prior to 1980. I've been anxiously awaiting this ballot because it seems like an impossible task to distill about 140 years of baseball (players, managers, executives, umpires, and pioneers from the AL/NL, other pre-integration major leagues, the Negro Leagues, and pre-1920 Black Baseball) to an eight-person ballot.</p> <p>To help wade through the candidates, I shared a ballot of 250 candidates and 312 baseball fans voted. In this episode, I discuss the results of the voting project with Dave Metter.</p> <p>Follow Dave at <a href="https://x.com/CooperstownDave" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">@CooperstownDave</a></p> <p><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bG36yABoFs8m5SbePebuBtt8UzOVQjVSZjOJqEVxW9M/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">View the Report</a></p>
January 24, 2024
<p>Today, Adrián Beltré, Todd Helton, and Joe Mauer were elected to the Hall of Fame via the BBWAA Ballot. Dave Metter (@CooperstownDave) joins me to discuss the election results and answer listener questions.</p>
December 22, 2023
<p>Today we go outside the box. Mark Shirk (<a href="https://twitter.com/bballhist" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">@bballhist</a> on Twitter) and Justin McKinney (<a href="https://twitter.com/Just_Mckinney" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">@Just_Mckinney</a> on Twitter) join me to discuss players who we believe were at or close to a Hall of Fame level, but are not on the Hall of Fame radar (for a variety of reasons. Players discussed:</p> <p><strong>Mark’s List:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Charlie Keller</li> <li>Charlie Smith</li> <li>Mike Scioscia</li> <li>Ross Barnes</li> <li>Bobby Avila</li> <li>Buster Clarkson</li> <li>Marvin Williams</li> <li>Buzz Arlett</li> </ul> <p><strong>Justin’s List:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Jim Creighton</li> <li>Cal McVey</li> <li>Dave Orr</li> <li>Fred Dunlap</li> <li>Fleet Walker</li> <li>Benny Kauff</li> <li>Sadaharu Oh</li> <li>Omar Linares</li> </ul> <p>Adam's List</p> <ul> <li>Heavy Johnson</li> <li>Dobie Moore</li> <li>Larry Jackson</li> <li>Silvio García</li> <li>Perucho Cepeda</li> <li>Joe Start</li> <li>Wes Ferrell</li> <li>Julio Franco</li> </ul>
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