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Results
1998 Baseball Hall of Fame Election
< 1997
473 total ballots (355 votes needed for election)
1999 >
PLAYER
YoB
VOTES
VOTE %
ELECTED
PREV VOTES
+/- VOTES
+/- PCT
LAST
Don Sutton
5
386
81.6
Y
346
40
8.5
Tony Perez
7
321
67.9
N
312
9
1.9
Ron Santo
15
204
43.1
N
186
18
3.8
Y
Jim Rice
4
203
42.9
N
178
25
5.3
Gary Carter
1
200
42.3
N
0
0
0.0
Steve Garvey
6
195
41.2
N
167
28
5.9
Bruce Sutter
5
147
31.1
N
130
17
3.6
Tommy John
4
129
27.3
N
97
32
6.8
Jim Kaat
10
129
27.3
N
107
22
4.7
Dave Parker
2
116
24.5
N
83
33
7.0
Bert Blyleven
1
83
17.5
N
0
0
0.0
Dave Concepcion
5
80
16.9
N
60
20
4.2
Minnie Minoso
14
76
16.1
N
84
-8
-1.7
Luis Tiant
11
62
13.1
N
53
9
1.9
Keith Hernandez
3
51
10.8
N
45
6
1.3
Dwight Evans
2
49
10.4
N
28
21
4.4
Mickey Lolich
14
39
8.2
N
34
5
1.1
Ron Guidry
5
37
7.8
N
31
6
1.3
Bob Boone
3
26
5.5
N
28
-2
-0.4
Jack Clark
1
7
1.5
N
0
0
0.0
Pedro Guerrero
1
6
1.3
N
0
0
0.0
Willie Randolph
1
5
1.1
N
0
0
0.0
Carney Lansford
1
3
0.6
N
0
0
0.0
Brian Downing
1
2
0.4
N
0
0
0.0
Mike Flanagan
1
2
0.4
N
0
0
0.0
Rick Dempsey
1
1
0.2
N
0
0
0.0