2017 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting

2017 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting
New inductees5
via BBWAA3
via Today's Game Era Committee2
Total inductees317
Induction dateJuly 30, 2017
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Elections to the Baseball Hall of Fame for 2017 proceeded according to rules most recently amended in 2016. As in the past, the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) voted by mail to select from a ballot of recently retired players, with results announced on January 18, 2017.[1] The BBWAA elected Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines, and Iván Rodríguez to the Hall of Fame.

The three voting panels that had replaced the more broadly defined Veterans Committee following a July 2010 rules change[2] were replaced by a new set of four panels in July 2016.[3] The newly created Today's Game Committee convened early in December 2016 to select from a ballot of retired players and non-playing personnel who made their greatest contributions to the sport after 1987.[3] John Schuerholz and Bud Selig were elected by this committee.

A formal induction ceremony was held in Cooperstown, New York, on July 30, 2017.[4]

  1. ^ "2017 Hall of Fame ballot". Baseball Writers' Association of America. Retrieved December 29, 2016.
  2. ^ "Hall of Fame Board of Directors Restructures Procedures for Consideration of Managers, Umpires, Executives and Long-Retired Players" (Press release). National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. July 26, 2010. Retrieved January 15, 2011.
  3. ^ a b "Hall of Fame Makes Series of Announcements" (Press release). National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. July 23, 2016. Retrieved August 14, 2016.
  4. ^ "Emotion gets the best of Pudge". Chicago Tribune. AP. July 31, 2017. p. 3-3. Retrieved October 8, 2019 – via newspapers.com.