2021 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting

2021 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting
New inductees0
Total inductees333
Induction dateSeptember 8, 2021
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The Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, in 2020

Elections to the National Baseball Hall of Fame for 2021 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 26, 2021, with no players receiving enough votes to be inducted.[1]

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, meetings of the Early Baseball committee and Golden Days committee—two of a group of four bodies generally referred to as the Veterans Committee—which were scheduled to consider players from the 1871–1949 and 1950–1969 eras, respectively, were postponed from December 2020 to December 2021.[2]

This was the first time since 2013 that the BBWAA did not elect a player to the Hall of Fame, and the first time since 1960 that no one was selected for induction to the Hall, either via the BBWAA or one of the Veterans Committees.[3]

Also due to the COVID-19 pandemic, four people elected to the Hall in 2020 balloting—Derek Jeter, Larry Walker, Ted Simmons, and Marvin Miller—who were originally scheduled to be inducted on July 26, 2020, were inducted during 2021 ceremonies.[4][5] The 2021 formal induction ceremonies in Cooperstown, New York, were originally planned to be held indoors and without spectators on July 25, 2021,[6] then were moved to September 8, 2021.[7]

  1. ^ Blinn, Michael (January 26, 2021). "Baseball Hall of Fame vote: Schilling, Bonds, Clemens come up short". New York Post. Retrieved January 26, 2021.
  2. ^ Fagan, Ryan (November 16, 2020). "2020 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot: Will anyone be elected this year?". Sporting News. Retrieved November 16, 2020.
  3. ^ "No players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame for first time since 1960". UPI.com. United Press International. January 26, 2021. Retrieved January 26, 2021.
  4. ^ 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.
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  6. ^ Shestakofsky, Jon (February 12, 2021). "Hall of Fame Adopts a Virtual Approach to 2021 Induction Ceremonies". insidetheseams.com. Retrieved February 12, 2021.
  7. ^ Columbia, Erik. "The 2021 Baseball HOF ceremony shifts to Sept. 8". localsyr.com. Retrieved 9 June 2021.