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Results
1987 Baseball Hall of Fame Election
< 1986
413 total ballots (310 votes needed for election)
1988 >
PLAYER
YoB
VOTES
VOTE %
ELECTED
PREV VOTES
+/- VOTES
+/- PCT
LAST
Billy Williams
6
354
85.7
Y
315
39
11.6
Catfish Hunter
3
315
76.3
Y
289
26
8.3
Jim Bunning
11
289
70.0
N
279
10
4.3
Orlando Cepeda
8
179
43.3
N
152
27
7.6
Roger Maris
14
176
42.6
N
177
-1
1.0
Tony Oliva
6
160
38.7
N
154
6
2.5
Harvey Kuenn
11
144
34.9
N
144
0
1.0
Bill Mazeroski
10
125
30.3
N
100
25
6.7
Maury Wills
10
113
27.4
N
124
-11
-1.8
Ken Boyer
8
96
23.2
N
95
1
0.9
Lew Burdette
15
96
23.2
N
96
0
0.7
Y
Mickey Lolich
3
84
20.3
N
86
-2
0.1
Minnie Minoso
3
82
19.9
N
89
-7
-1.1
Roy Face
12
78
18.9
N
74
4
1.5
Ron Santo
4
78
18.9
N
64
14
3.8
Dick Allen
4
55
13.3
N
41
14
3.7
Curt Flood
6
50
12.1
N
45
5
1.5
Vada Pinson
6
48
11.6
N
43
5
1.5
Joe Torre
5
47
11.4
N
60
-13
-2.7
Elston Howard
14
44
10.7
N
51
-7
-1.3
Don Larsen
14
30
7.3
N
33
-3
-0.5
Thurman Munson
7
28
6.8
N
35
-7
-1.5
Wilbur Wood
4
26
6.3
N
23
3
0.9
Bobby Bonds
1
24
5.8
N
0
0
0.0
Mike Marshall
1
6
1.5
N
0
0
0.0
Sal Bando
1
3
0.7
N
0
0
0.0
Jerry Grote
1
0
0.0
N
0
0
0.0
Steve Stone
1
0
0.0
N
0
0
0.0