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Results
1979 Baseball Hall of Fame Election
< 1978
432 total ballots (324 votes needed for election)
1980 >
PLAYER
YoB
VOTES
VOTE %
ELECTED
PREV VOTES
+/- VOTES
+/- PCT
LAST
Willie Mays
1
409
94.7
Y
0
0
0.0
Duke Snider
10
308
71.3
N
254
54
4.3
Enos Slaughter
14
297
68.8
N
261
36
-0.1
Gil Hodges
11
242
56.0
N
226
16
-3.6
Don Drysdale
5
233
53.9
N
219
14
-3.8
Nellie Fox
9
174
40.3
N
149
25
1.0
Hoyt Wilhelm
2
168
38.9
N
158
10
-2.8
Maury Wills
2
166
38.4
N
115
51
8.1
Red Schoendienst
11
159
36.8
N
130
29
2.5
Jim Bunning
3
147
34.0
N
181
-34
-13.7
Richie Ashburn
12
130
30.1
N
158
-28
-11.6
Roger Maris
6
127
29.4
N
83
44
7.5
Luis Aparicio
1
120
27.8
N
0
0
0.0
Mickey Vernon
14
88
20.4
N
66
22
3.0
Al Dark
14
80
18.5
N
60
20
2.7
Harvey Kuenn
3
63
14.6
N
58
5
-0.7
Ted Kluszewski
13
58
13.4
N
51
7
0.0
Don Larsen
6
53
12.3
N
32
21
3.8
Lew Burdette
7
53
12.3
N
76
-23
-7.8
Don Newcombe
14
52
12.0
N
48
4
-0.6
Bill Mazeroski
2
36
8.3
N
23
13
2.3
Roy Face
4
35
8.1
N
27
8
1.0
Elston Howard
6
30
6.9
N
41
-11
-3.9
Ken Boyer
5
20
4.6
N
18
2
-0.1
Curt Flood
3
14
3.2
N
8
6
1.1
Bobby Thomson
14
11
2.5
N
5
6
1.2
Vern Law
7
9
2.1
N
6
3
0.5
Del Crandall
4
9
2.1
N
0
0
0.0
Harvey Haddix
9
8
1.9
N
7
1
0.0
Ron Perranoski
1
6
1.4
N
0
0
0.0
Frank Howard
1
6
1.4
N
0
0
0.0
Milt Pappas
1
5
1.2
N
0
0
0.0
Clete Boyer
2
3
0.7
N
0
0
0.0
Denny McLain
2
3
0.7
N
1
2
0.4
Jim Maloney
2
2
0.5
N
2
0
-0.1
Hal Lanier
1
1
0.2
N
0
0
0.0
Chick Shorten
1
1
0.2
N
0
0
0.0
Johnny Callison
1
1
0.2
N
0
0
0.0
Bernie Allen
1
0
0.0
N
0
0
0.0
Fred Gladding
1
0
0.0
N
0
0
0.0
Tommie Agee
1
0
0.0
N
0
0
0.0
Bobby Bolin
1
0
0.0
N
0
0
0.0
Rich Reese
1
0
0.0
N
0
0
0.0
Ray Culp
1
0
0.0
N
0
0
0.0
Eddie Fisher
1
0
0.0
N
0
0
0.0
Larry Stahl
1
0
0.0
N
0
0
0.0
Jose Pagan
1
0
0.0
N
0
0
0.0
John Stephenson
1
0
0.0
N
0
0
0.0
Joe Pepitone
1
0
0.0
N
0
0
0.0
Jimmy Stewart
1
0
0.0
N
0
0
0.0
Jim Beauchamp
1
0
0.0
N
0
0
0.0
Jerry May
1
0
0.0
N
0
0
0.0
Jeff Torborg
1
0
0.0
N
0
0
0.0
Gene Alley
1
0
0.0
N
0
0
0.0