2024 Baseball Hall Of Fame Balloting
Elections to the Baseball Hall of Fame for 2024 were conducted according to the rules most recently amended in 2022. As in the past, the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) voted by mail to select from a ballot of recently retired players, with the results announced on January 23. Three candidates were inducted by BBWAA: Adrián Beltré, Todd Helton, and Joe Mauer. Beltré and Mauer were inducted in their first year of eligibility; Helton was in his sixth year of eligibility. The Contemporary Baseball Era Committee met on December 3, 2023 at the Winter Meetings to consider the election of eight managers, executives or umpires who made their greatest impact on the game since 1980. Manager Jim Leyland was elected by the committee. Inductees were honored in a ceremony at the Clark Sports Center on Sunday, July 21, 2024. BBWAA ballot The list of players appearing on the BBWAA ballot was released on November 20, 2023. There were 14 players carried over from the 20 ...
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National Baseball Hall Of Fame And Museum
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is a history museum and hall of fame in Cooperstown, New York, operated by private interests. It serves as the central point of the history of baseball in the United States and displays baseball-related artifacts and exhibits, honoring those who have excelled in playing, managing, and serving the sport. The Hall's motto is "Preserving History, Honoring Excellence, Connecting Generations". Cooperstown is often used as shorthand (or a metonym) for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, similar to "Canton" for the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. The Hall of Fame was established in 1939 by Stephen Carlton Clark, an heir to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune. Clark sought to bring tourists to a city hurt by the Great Depression, which reduced the local tourist trade, and Prohibition, which devastated the local hops industry. Clark constructed the Hall of Fame's building, and it was dedicated on June 12, 1939. (His gran ...
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