Hallbound...2011!!!

Your 2011 Baseball Hall of Famers: Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven!!!
The votes are in...

• Roberto Alomar 523 (90.0%);
• Bert Blyleven 463 (79.7%);
• Barry Larkin 361 (62.1%);
• Jack Morris 311 (53.5%);
• Lee Smith 263 (45.3%);
• Jeff Bagwell 242 (41.7%);
• Tim Raines 218 (37.5%);
• Edgar Martinez 191 (32.9%);
• Alan Trammell 141 (24.3%);
• Larry Walker 118 (20.3%);
• Mark McGwire 115 (19.8%);
• Fred McGriff 104 (17.9%);
• Dave Parker 89 (15.3%);
• Don Mattingly 79 (13.6%);
• Dale Murphy 73 (12.6%);
• Rafael Palmeiro 64 (11.0%);
• Juan González 30 (5.2%);
• Harold Baines 28 (4.8%);
• John Franco 27 (4.7%);
• Kevin Brown 12 (2.1%);
• Tino Martinez 6 (1.0%);
• Marquis Grissom 4 (0.7%);
• Al Leiter 4 (0.7%);
• John Olerud 4 (0.7%);
• B. J. Surhoff 2 (0.3%);
• Bret Boone 1 (0.2%);
• Benito Santiago 1 (0.2%);
• Carlos Baerga 0;
• Lenny Harris 0;
• Bobby Higginson 0;
• Charles Johnson 0;
• Raul Mondesi 0;
• Kirk Rueter 0;

Congratulations to Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven for being elected into the Hall of Fame in what was their second and fourteenth years on the ballot respectively!!! To get in this year, a player had to appear on 436 ballots.

The players whose names are italicized will appear on next year's ballot, having surpassed the five percent rule to stay on (27 votes). Dave Parker was on his fifteenth and final ballot, and will now wait for the Veteran's Committee to decide his fate in the future.

According to the Baseball Hall of Fame website, a record 581 ballots were cast. And just like last year, five of the ballots returned were left BLANK!!!

Sincerely,

JayBee Anama