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Originally Posted by z28jd
I'd like to know why they decided they needed more than 50.0% of the votes to get in? If more than half of them thought they were a Hall of Famer, why doesn't that put them in like every other voting process. I would think if they are qualified enough to vote, then only one more than half of them needs to think they should be there.
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They probably thought it would dilute the already water downed significance of the Hall. If it was 50% this year we would have had 5 inductees. Craig Biggio, Jack Morris, Jeff Bagwell, Mike Piazza and Tim Raines.