2020 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting

2020 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting
New inductees4
via BBWAA2
via Modern Baseball Era Committee2
Total inductees333
Induction dateSeptember 8, 2021
← 2019
2021 →
L-R: electees Derek Jeter, Larry Walker, and Ted Simmons.
Marvin Miller was also elected.

Elections to the National Baseball Hall of Fame for 2020 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. The results were announced on January 21, 2020,[1] with Derek Jeter and Larry Walker elected to the Hall of Fame.[2]

The Modern Baseball Era Committee, one of four voting panels that since 2016 have taken over the role of the more broadly defined Veterans Committee,[3][4] convened at the Major League Baseball Winter Meetings in December 2019 to select from a ballot of retired players and non-playing personnel who made their greatest contributions to the sport in the 1970–1987 period.[4] The committee elected former player Ted Simmons and former executive Marvin Miller.[5]

The formal induction ceremony was to be held at the Hall's facilities in Cooperstown, New York, on July 26, 2020.[6][1] However, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 induction ceremony was canceled.[7] Inductees from 2020 were honored during ceremonies on September 8, 2021.[8]

  1. ^ a b "2020 BBWAA Hall of Fame Ballot" (Press release). National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Retrieved December 18, 2019.
  2. ^ Doolittle, Bradford (January 21, 2020). "Derek Jeter, Larry Walker elected to Baseball Hall of Fame". ESPN.com. Retrieved January 21, 2020.
  3. ^ "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. Archived from the original on December 14, 2010. Retrieved January 15, 2011.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Modern was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "Future Eligibles". National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Retrieved January 24, 2019.
  7. ^ Anderson, R.J. (April 29, 2020). "Baseball Hall of Fame cancels 2020 induction ceremony; Jeter, Walker, others to be honored in 2021". CBS Sports. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
  8. ^ Columbia, Erik (9 June 2021). "The 2021 Baseball HOF ceremony shifts to Sept. 8". localsyr.com. Retrieved 9 June 2021.