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“A lot of things had to go right,” Helton said Thursday during a news conference in the Hall’s plaque gallery alongside Mauer and fellow electee Adrián Beltré.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2024

Rolen’s 76.3% of the vote was the smallest margin for an electee since Al Simmons got 199 votes in 1953 for 75.38%, one more vote than needed.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2023

In 1980, Kaline was elected to the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility — making him at the time only the ninth first-ballot electee since the inaugural Cooperstown class of 1936.

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2020

This year’s likeliest inductees are longtime Houston Astros first baseman Jeff Bagwell and speedy left fielder Tim Raines, with catcher Ivan Rodriguez, who ended his 21-year career with the Washington Nationals, another possible electee.

From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2017

A measure was introduced benefiting the Sangamon district, so that its electee might befittingly push it, and defend it.

From The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form by Williams, Henry Llewellyn