1988 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting

1988 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting
New inductees1
via BBWAA1
Total inductees200
Induction dateJuly 31, 1988
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Willie Stargell, sole 1988 inductee

Elections to the Baseball Hall of Fame for 1988 followed the system in place since 1978. The Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) voted by mail to select from recent major league players and elected Willie Stargell. The Veterans Committee met in closed sessions to consider older major league players as well as managers, umpires, executives, and figures from the Negro leagues; it selected no one. A formal induction ceremony was held in Cooperstown, New York, on July 31, 1988, with Commissioner of Baseball Peter Ueberroth in attendance.[1]

  1. ^ Holtzman, Jerome (August 1, 1988). "Stargell seeks fame as a boss". Chicago Tribune. p. 3-3. Retrieved October 9, 2019 – via newspapers.com.