Rickey Henderson and Jim Rice were elected to Baseballs Hall of Fame today. Rickey is baseball's all time steals leader and made it on his first ballot. Jim Rice was actually in his final year of eligibility.
Rickey Henderson got over 94% of the vote cast by the Baseball Writers. Of the 539 votes cast Ricky was named on 511 of them. Jim Rice was named on 412 of the 539 cast and passed the seventy five percent required by seven votes.
Rickey was the all time steals leader and also the all time runs leaders and banged out over 3,000 hits as well. The 1990 AL MVP also won World Series titles with the Oakland A's in 1989 and added another one in 1993 with the Toronto Blue Jays. His single season stolen base record of 130 in 1982 may never be broke. He also led off 81 games by smashing home runs, that's an amazing stat.
Jim Rice is on the four letter network as I write this and he is saying one of the reasons it took him so long to get elected was because he ran his mouth too much. Take that for what it's worth. Rice played sixteen years in Boston and had pretty good stats, you be the judge if they are Hall of Fame stats......382 career home runs.......1451career RBIs.....2452 career hits these are very good numbers are they Hall of Fame numbers.......what do you think.
How many players from the 1975 World Series can you name that are in the Hall of Fame......I can one that should be in there.....PETER EDWARD ROSE
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